GAZA — All Palestinian surgeon Bashir al-Hourani has to work with within the central Gaza college the place he helps run a discipline clinic amid Israel’s pounding offensive is gauze and disinfectant as he treats strolling wounded turned away from overstretched hospitals.
“We don’t have anything else,” he mentioned, displaying a bottle of iodine he was utilizing to scrub the lengthy working scar operating down the torso and abdomen of an injured man.
“This patient should be in hospital but because of overcrowding he was transferred to the field hospital,” he mentioned.
“We have dozens like this patient. We have children it’s hard to treat. We change their dressings one day and the next we find infection because there is no sterilization, there are no specialized places. There are no bin bags,” he mentioned.
Al-Sayedah Khadija School is situated in Deir al-Balah, within the middle of the tiny crowded Palestinian enclave that Israeli forces have been besieging, bombarding and in current weeks invading in response to a lethal Hamas assault on Oct. 7.
The conflict has killed greater than 20,000 individuals based on native well being authorities in Hamas-run Gaza and wounded 50,000 extra, all whereas hospitals have been put out of motion and medical provides practically exhausted.
While some support has entered Gaza in current weeks by way of Egypt, it has been exhausting to distribute a lot past the speedy border space and hospitals elsewhere within the enclave are barely capable of operate, aid companies say.
Medicins Sans Frontiers, the worldwide medical company, mentioned in a social media put up on Friday that at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza “doctors are stepping over the bodies of dead children to treat other children who will die anyway”.
At the Deir al-Balah discipline clinic, Hourani was busy bandaging the pinnacle of Maysara Abu Telakh, a boy injured within the bombardment however discharged early from the native al-Aqsa hospital as a result of it had extra pressing instances to deal with.
“They had to transfer Maysara to the field hospital, which is a school, to continue treatment … the situation here is difficult especially with medical supplies. There’s a lack of medicine, nurses, even doctors,” mentioned the kid’s father Jihed Abu Telakh.
The household misplaced its house and is now staying briefly on the discipline clinic whereas they search one other place to shelter. —Reuters
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