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Gaza kidney treatment centre reopens months after being destroyed by Israeli attacks
The Hind Dagma Building for kidney patients at the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza has been handed over to the Ministry of Health after a four-month reconstruction, following its destruction in Israeli attacks.
In a statement on Facebook, the Nasser Medical Complex said: “Today, hope is restored.
“The Hind Dagma Building for kidney patients in Nasser Medical Complex – South of Gaza Strip was handed over to the Ministry of Health, fully rehabilitated and equipped, after being destroyed by the Israeli occupation.
“With a 4-month continuous effort, and with support from the IA (Medics), the building is back to embracing patients.”
Al-Shifa Hospital staff work without food as key departments remain in ruins
Every time we are inside the al-Shifa hospital, working on a report, or meeting with doctors, we can’t help but feel more of the depression that takes over us.
This is one of the largest healthcare facilities that serves the entire Gaza City. The only functioning departments are the emergency ward and the intensive care unit after they were rehabilitated and put back on track.
But what’s worse is not just the physical destruction, but the human capacity inside the hospital. We’re talking about medical staff who are not eating enough in order to do their job in the best way.
Due to the enforced dehydration and starvation, many of them are living off the community kitchens, with whatever meals are provided, just a bowl of soup or lentils, or just living on water for long periods of time.
As we prepared the report, we had to cut filming it twice, to help a collapsing nurse outside, because she hadn’t eaten that day at all.
Many patients’ capacity to recover is ‘close to zero’, says doctor in Gaza
Al Jazeera has spoken with Ahmed Yousef, a trauma specialist who is volunteering in Gaza, about the desperate condition inside the besieged and bombarded territory’s health facilities.
With severe shortages of supplies and patients’ health often already weakened by malnutrition, the doctor said many patients have little chance of recovery.
“Patients come and doctors know if they have a certain level of injury, there’s nothing we can do,” he said. “And to face families, and to face patients in the last moments of their life, and not be able to do the things we are trained to do is devastating.”
On the effects of malnutrition, he noted: “We see skin and bones and ribs, we see temporal wasting, we see sunken eyes … All of the things we learn about malnutrition in textbooks, we see in every person here – doctor, nurse and patient.
“[For] patients who, on top of this, have suffered devastating traumatic injuries … their capacity to recover is close to zero,” he added.
