#(this probably still doesnt account for the 75k more people in gaza but oh well). now you have the hospital capacity of gaza | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bitegore · 1 year ago

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Gaza is an extremely densely populated territory, with an estimated 2022 population of 2,375,000 people. Houston, an American city of comparable population (estimated 2,302,000) has, at least according to Wikipedia, more than 80 hospitals in Houston's Harris County and more than 125 in the greater Houston area.

Hospitals serve people, not land. The question really shouldn't be "why does Gaza need that many hopsitals?" but "why does Gaza have almost a fifth of the hospitals as a comparably-populated city?" And, from there, obviously, "why is the occupation targeting Gaza's hospitals", and "why are we trying to act like there are too many hospitals in Gaza, anyway?"

Just some food for thought.

#god this computer hates tumblr soooo much. everything's running insanely slow #also like houston isnt under siege and that's part of why they CAN have 205 hospitals in the greater houston area #sorry i really strongly dislike the take in this post or whatever like #thats a criminally small number of hospitals for any population of 2.3 million people #ESPECIALLY one under siege #its not 'so they have enough hospitals to deal with wartime injuries' it is literally not enough to deal with the medical issues of SMALLER #AMERICAN CITIES during PEACETIME #like. okay i didnt know that off the top of my head but i was curious what the numbers came out to because i have a brain and i knew that 4 #sounded like a really small number for ~2 million people #but to see that it was literally 4.88x fewer hospitals - basically one fifth the hospitals - than in houston was like. Frankly that is stag #staggering and deeply fucked up. like. to make it really work i want you to imagine four of every five hospitals in houston vanishing #(this probably still doesnt account for the 75k more people in gaza but oh well). now you have the hospital capacity of gaza #it doesnt seem like 'such a large number of hospitals for such a small territory' in those terms

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