Devastating Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: Urgent Calls for Aid and Medical Supplies

2023-10-20 16:12:00

Fatima Yasser wrote Friday, October 20, 2023 07:12 PM

A real tragedy that our Palestinian brothers are suffering from, as they live under the weight of bombing, beatings, smoke, and the death of families, relatives, and children… suffering in every sense.

Spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, confirmed that the number of martyrs of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip had risen to 4,137 Palestinian citizens and the injury of 13,162 others with various injuries, noting that the Israeli occupation committed 37 massacres once morest families in the Gaza Strip, killing 352 martyrs and injuring 669 with various injuries.

The regional spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) confirmed that children in Gaza are the most affected by the current events in the Strip as a result of the lack of food and medical supplies necessary to save their lives, which he described as “critical.”

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed the need for trucks loaded with food and medical aid currently at the Rafah crossing to enter Gaza as soon as possible to save the lives of those affected by the current events in the Strip.

In this regard, “The Seventh Day” communicated with the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in GazaDr. Muhammad Abu Salamiya, who made several important private statements regarding the medical situation in Gaza, indicating that it is “very bad.”

Patients in corridors and operations without anesthesia

The director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza also added that the number of injured people in Gaza exceeds the hospital’s capacity by double, so as a medical team, we are trying to save what patients can.

He continued his speech by saying that hundreds of wounded are in the corridors and there are no beds for them in the hospital. We also performed many surgical operations on some patients, especially following the bombing of Baptist Hospital, without anesthesia, and this matter is difficult for the patient and also for the medical service provider, i.e. the doctor. “We performed Surgical operations on the ground and on the roads.” The goal is to save as many citizens as possible because there are no operating rooms or medical supplies.

He added that patients undergoing operations without equipped procedures expose the wounds to infection as a result of infection in the wound.

Patients in corridors in Palestine

Pregnant women in Gaza

Muhammad Abu Salmiya confirmed that when selecting patients, the priority will be those who were exposed to explosions, burns, and the like. We select patients for whom we can provide medical service, and therefore pregnant women have difficulty arriving to the hospital, and even if they arrive, we are unable to provide them with any medical service. .

People with chronic diseases and hospice patients

Abu Salmiya pointed out that people with chronic diseases suffer from a lack of treatment for them, and therefore will be exposed to complications, and also patients in care rooms do not find treatment, and this increases their chances of being exposed to health complications.

Dialysis patients

Finally, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza confirmed that some dialysis patients die due to a decrease in the number of dialysis procedures they receive, and this exposes them to many health complications.

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