As the tragic situation continues due to the continuation of the war in Gaza, Heba Rashed, chairwoman of the board of directors of a charitable association in Egypt, revealed that the association was communicating with a Palestinian patient who arrived in Egypt from Gaza with a foot disease.
She said, “The Palestinian patient suffered from inflammation of the foot tissue after being exposed to a decomposing corpse, among the decomposing corpses spread throughout the Gaza Strip, and he could not find a place to bury it.”
The case of the Palestinian patient raised a question about what health repercussions might occur as a result of the spread of decomposed bodies in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli bombing and raids? This comes in light of the deterioration of health services and the withdrawal of a number of hospitals from service.
Dr. Hamed Abdullah Hamed, Professor of Dermatology at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, explains to Al Arabiya.net, “How decomposing corpses cause the residents of the Gaza Strip to suffer from many diseases.”
He says, “It is known that the spread of corpses without burying them in a timely manner, as well as the spread of the remains of the wounded and their subsequent secretions, etc., affects the health of the living, as the decomposition of corpses produces toxic gases and chemicals that spread in the atmosphere and fly until they reach other areas with the wind.” “This infects humans and living organisms with serious diseases.”
He said, “The dust resulting from the bombing and demolition of homes, as well as the effects resulting from dropping bombs and emptying air, also leads to the occurrence of skin diseases such as burns, ulcers, toxic and contaminated purulent wounds, and what is known as ‘abscesses,’ in addition to the spread of putrefaction bacteria resulting from the decomposition of corpses, a type known as It is called “anaerobic bacteria” and is responsible for the unpleasant odor that emanates from decomposing corpses. It is dangerous, and if it infects the skin, treatment with known antibiotics is useless.
The professor of dermatology adds, “Other diseases that may infect living people from decomposing corpses in the Gaza Strip due to “anaerobic bacteria” are serious skin infections and recurrent purulent ulcers,” noting that “there is another health disaster that may afflict the residents of the Gaza Strip due to decomposing corpses and population crowding.” This is the presence of a fertile environment for the spread of the rapidly spreading scabies infection, and with the lack of necessary water that can be used for personal hygiene, the disease may spread horribly due to contact.”
He says, “There is another danger that the sector may suffer from, which concerns hospitals that have gone out of service due to the accumulation of wounded people’s waste containing blood stains, some bones, skin, some tissues, sores, and pus, and the difficulty of recycling these wastes, which results in people suffering from severe infections in the body’s tissues and an increase in infection with viral hepatitis.” “B” and “C”.
2024-03-07 06:18:30
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