Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Deir al-Balah, Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine |
Coordinates | 31°25′11.89″N 34°21′36″E / 31.4199694°N 34.36000°E |
Organisation | |
Type | Treatment |
History | |
Opened | 2001 |
Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital (Arabic: مستشفى شهداء الأقصى الحكومي, romanized: Mustashfaa shuhada' al'aqsaa alhukumii, lit. 'al-Aqsa Martyrs Governmental Hospital') is a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Palestine.
Shuhada was founded in 2001. As of 2018, it was one of fifteen public hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
It is managed by UNRWA, The Ministry of Health and various NGOs. The hospital served an estimated 18,000 patients each month until recently.[clarification needed] According to The Ministry of Health, the hospital's emergency department had over 11,000 visits. [1][2][3] In 2018, the hospital had 166 beds.[4]