Doctors recount horrors of Gaza healthcare collapse and wounds of patients
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Several doctors who recently returned from Gaza, spoke to journalists at the UN, recalling the
Mar 20, 2024 #IsraelHamasWar #IsraelWar #Israel
Several doctors who recently returned from Gaza, spoke to journalists at the UN, recalling the difficulties medics face trying to save lives in a healthcare system that has totally collapsed.
Nick Maynard, from Medical Aid for Palestinians, said he saw the most devastating burns in small children.
“One child I’ll never forget had burned so bad you could see her facial bones,” he said. “We knew there was no chance of her surviving but there was no morphine to give her. So not only was she inevitably going to die, but she would die in agony. And what made it even worse that there was nowhere for her to go and die. So she was just left on the floor of the emergency department to die.”
Another doctor gave a vivid example of some the medical supplies that are not being allowed into Gaza.
“This small vial of medicine here is a medicine that we use for sedation,” said Thaer Ahmad from Med Global.
“This is something that we could be using for our patients who are in pain, who we are trying to reset their fractures. We’re trying to clean their burns. It’s an incredibly painful process and this is something that can help, [and] we’re not able to get into the Gaza Strip because the trucks are stalled.”
Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo has more at the United Nations in New York.
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