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UK surgeon in Gaza says she’s ‘never seen so many blast injuries’
A British surgeon visiting a Gaza hospital says she’s “never seen so many blast injuries in my life” as Israel ramps up attacks on the Palestinian territory ravaged by nearly 20 months of war.
Victoria Rose, part of a British medical delegation to Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, said she’s seen lots of severe burns, which are typical wounds for people hit by an explosion.
“We’re seeing these injuries in really small children as well,” Rose said.
Burns “are very difficult to survive from even in the Western countries where there is no war and we have functioning hospitals and all the medical supplies at our fingertips”.
“So here, most of these burns are going to be unsurvivable.”
WHO: Everyone in Gaza suffering from lack of crucial supplies
Dr Margaret Harris, spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, says medicines are essentially gone from Gaza’s hospitals as the badly wounded from Israeli attacks continue to pour in.
“They are facing people coming in with the most horrific and complex injuries. They don’t have the cleaning fluid to do it and they don’t have the painkillers. Just even changing a bandage on a child with a burn is excruciating,” she told Al Jazeera.
Meanwhile, essential medicines for people with cancer, heart disease and maladies are not coming in either because of Israel’s total blockade, said Harris.
“So whether you’ve been bombed or whether you need medicine to keep you healthy, everyone is suffering from the lack of supplies.”
Eighty-one Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn: Sources
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera at least 81 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on various parts of Gaza since dawn. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,977 Palestinians and wounded 122,966, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The death toll is estimated to be far higher thousands of bodies buried in the vast debris of bombed out buildings throughout the Gaza Strip.
