2023-11-02 10:58:00
On Thursday, the Government Information Office in Gaza revealed the number of hospitals that were out of service due to the Israeli aggression, which are the Turkish Hospital, Beit Hanoun Hospital, Al-Wafa Hospital, Public Service Hospital, Friends of the Patient Hospital, Al-Karama Hospital, Haifa Hospital, International Eye Hospital, and Muslim Hospital. Specialist Hospital, Al-Durra Hospital, Hamad Hospital, Dar Al-Salam Hospital, Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital, St. John’s Hospital, Al-Hayat Hospital, Jaffa Hospital, in addition to 32 health centers out of 52 primary care centers.
The British newspaper “Financial Times” monitored, in its issue published on Monday morning, that the health sector in the Gaza Strip, which is besieged by Israel, has collapsed, to the point that in recent days, many doctors in the Strip have performed surgeries without anesthesia, due to the lack of basic medical supplies and fuel.
The newspaper shed light – in the context of a report, published on its website – on the suffering of the doctors of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, and stressed that Nasser Hospital, which has 350 beds, is no exception. After three weeks of violent Israeli bombing, medical services became… Gaza is on the brink of collapse, but exhausted staff are doing their best with rapidly dwindling resources.
In its report, the newspaper dealt with the story of the treatment of Omar Ahmed, 25 years old, who was injured in an Israeli raid, and stated that his story reflects what is happening within a medical system that is on the verge of collapse. During the five days he spent in the hospital, not a single moment passed without pain, as His burns were cleaned without anaesthetic, and he was left to recover with painkillers “which were not strong enough.”
The crowded room that Ahmed shared with five other serious burn victims suffered from power outages for long periods of the day, and without cooling, the heat made him sweat, leading to infection of his wounds, he said.. said Ahmed, whose leg was broken in an explosion while trying Fleeing northern Gaza, in a special statement to the newspaper: “The hospital asks people to leave when they are 60 or 70 percent recovered… I don’t know what I will do if I have to leave.”
Israel has cut off electricity to Gaza, and the fuel needed to run the generators in Nasser Hospital is low, not to mention that medical supplies are regarding to run out. Surgery is often performed without routine anesthesia, and according to doctors, their priority is to keep stocks in reserve for cases. Difficult, according to the newspaper.
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