Gaza’s doctors have become very weak to treat patients “with the deepening of the hunger crisis | Israel-Gaza war
Doctors and medical employees in Gaza says their increasing hunger and lack of food available began to leave them very weak to provide urgent medical care for patients inside hospitals full of civilians who suffer from malnutrition and wounded.
Nearly ten medical staff were told all over the region, the Guardian newspaper and the Arab journalists of the investigative journalism (ARIJ) about their increasingly desperate research on food and the decline in physical health due to hunger.
“They are in a state of extreme exhaustion. Some have passed away in the operating rooms.”
He added: “The medical services will be affected because our employees will not be able to withstand in the face of this starvation.”
Many doctors and medical practitioners who sent messages to the guardian did not want their name because they were afraid to target the Israeli army.
“I was today in a 24 -hour working attack,” said one of the doctors at the Shiva Hospital. “in [the hospital] It is supposed to give us some rice to every seizure, but today they told us that there is nothing. I and my colleague [treated] 60 diseases of neurosurgery and now I can not even stand. “
Another general practitioner volunteers at the Shiva Hospital said: “I had nothing to eat since yesterday and my family has nothing to eat,” said another general practitioner volunteered at the Shiva Hospital. [but] Here nothing in the market. We are no longer able to walk. We don’t know what to do. “
One of the surgeons in the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza said that the burden of work facing the excessive medical staff is increasing with the acceptance of more patients about the symptoms related to malnutrition.
“There are a large number of patients with gastroenteritis, fainting and low blood sugar in all age groups of patients coming to the hospital,” he said. There is also a noticeable increase in complications after surgery after operations due to malnutrition.
He said: “I could not eat for two days because I was afraid to increase gastritis and intestine, and because of low blood pressure, I had to stop during surgery on a girl who was shot in the abdomen.”
Abu Selmia said that the medical staff was still working despite the lack of food, but the volume of malnutrition they were facing in patients was putting great pressure on an already exhausted working force. He said that 21 children died Through the Palestinian territories in the past three days, “due to malnutrition and hunger.”
“[These patients] “It needs special nutrition, but there is no any, so they face risks,” he said.
Yesterday, UNRWA President Philip Lazarini said that his team had received reports on health care and relief workers through Gaza fainting due to hunger and fatigue due to lack of food.
Some medical employees talked about having to determine whether he will remain at work and provide urgent medical care or go out to the streets to search for food for their families.
Others talked about their fear of being forced to go to the food distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the guard of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which is the only place where food and aid are allowed to move to civilians in Gaza. Since May, More than 1,000 people died while searching for food From the centers and other humanitarian convoys, according to the United Nations
The health care system in Gaza was destroyed within 23 months of the conflict. In May, World Health Organization He said at least 94 % of all hospitals In the Gaza Strip, it was damaged or destroyed, and only 19 Gaza Hospital remains 36 hospitals.
“In recent days, health care workers in Gaza have collectively reported unprecedented levels of food insecurity, reduce immunity, frequent infections, severe fatigue, and repeated fainting during surgeries and rescue missions.” “We cannot bear just a condemnation. We need urgent work.”
In a statement, the Israel Defense Army said it is to facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid in order to allow hospitals in Gaza to continue work.
He also said that “after the incidents in which the harm was reported to the civilians who reached the distribution facilities, comprehensive examinations were conducted in the southern leadership and instructions were issued for the forces in the field after the lessons learned.