‘Ready to receive newborns from Gaza hospital’

Cairo, Nov 18: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has instructed the country’s medical sector to receive newborn babies from the Al-Shifa Hospital, the enclave’s largest medical facility that suspended its operation on November 11 after it ran out of fuel. To implement the directives of the President, Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said at a cabinet meeting on Thursday night that ambulances and incubators were ready at the Rafah crossing, the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, to receive the 35 premature babies, Xinhua news agency reported. Israeli forces raided the medical complex on Wednesday (IANS)