Surgeons at Al Shifa Hospital perform surgery without painkillerssaid Christos Cristo, International President of MSF. “We heard the injured patients screaming in pain,” MSF team members said.
Ms. Al Shifa currently works at the following locations: over 600% The capacity has been exceeded, said Mohamed Abu Salmiya, director-general of the agency, in an editorial published on October 25, 2016. lancet October 18th.On the same day, Abu Salmiya told the Associated Press “The hospital’s generators will run out within hours.”
ICRC spokesman Chris Hunger told WIRED that surgeons at Al Shifa Hospital were working around the clock to care for the injured. “They told us that the whole system was being turned upside down trying to triage patients, but there was no way to manage the number of casualties,” he says. “All operating rooms are occupied.”
Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza receives “mostly charred bodies, bodies riddled with fragments, and dismembered bodies of women and children,” said Hassam Abu, MedGlobal’s chief physician in northern Gaza.・Mr. Tharoor, who is in regular contact with Mr. Safiya, says: Tharoor said almost all the victims were women and children.
Another concern is that the sheer number of corpses could lead to disease outbreaks. “Hospitals are full of bodies,” Tharoor said. Abu Safiya, a doctor working in northern Gaza, worries that decomposing bodies could contaminate the water and cause an outbreak of disease.
On October 18, all five sewage treatment plants in Gaza were closed. was forced to close The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says power shortages are increasing the risk of waterborne diseases. Al Shifa Hospital is bury bodies in mass graves.
Due to limited resources, priority is given to treating the most seriously injured. This means we will no longer be able to treat patients who require ongoing treatment for cancer and other illnesses. The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital is located in the south of Gaza City. On the verge of closure, meaning all 9,000 cancer patients in Gaza will be left without treatment. “Many of these people will die,” Tharoor says. “It’s not because of the bombing, it’s because of the unavailability of vital medicines.”
Twenty humanitarian trucks carrying food, water and medicine are allowed to cross the Egypt-Gaza border on October 19, following a meeting between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was announced that it would be done. The White House said assistance could begin as early as Friday.
In the meantime, Gaza’s health system will continue to collapse and casualties will continue to rise. Hospitals are overwhelmed and doctors are unable to prevent patients from dying, Absitter said. “This is just an emergency department where people come in. If you’re going to survive, you’re going to survive, and if you’re not, you’re going to die.”
