Written by Ahmed Juma Thursday, October 26, 2023 01:37 PM
The Gaza Strip is suffering from the collapse of the health sector and hospitals with the continuation of the brutal Israeli aggression and bombing of civilian homes. Hospitals have become unable to receive more wounded and injured due to the exhaustion of medicines and medical materials necessary to perform surgical operations on the injured.
Doctors in the Gaza Strip are under intense pressure as the Israeli aggression intensifies and they are working around the clock to treat the injured and injured, and their increasing concern for their families who are threatened by bombing at any time, with the continued indiscriminate bombing of the homes of safe people.
Al-Youm Al-Sabea spoke with one of the Palestinian doctors, Dr. Mahmoud Saad Al-Din, an anesthesiologist at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, after his displacement with thousands of Palestinians from their homes in the north towards some areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian doctor’s tone was full of sadness and sorrow because of the scenes and tragedies that he observes daily inside the hospital, which is crowded with thousands of citizens who are lying on the ground in search of shelter within the walls of the hospital in light of the intensification of Israeli warplanes’ raids targeting residential neighborhoods in the vicinity of hospitals to terrorize citizens.
More than a million Palestinian citizens were displaced from the north towards the central region and the south, with increasing Israeli air strikes and demands for Palestinian citizens to flee to the south. Despite this, Israeli aircraft targeted gatherings of dozens of displaced people fleeing to southern Gaza.
The Palestinian doctor, who appears exhausted, said that he witnessed five wars on Gaza, but this war on Gaza is completely different, because what moves us and affects us is the scenes of injured children being transported to hospitals for treatment and those with fatal injuries. We are working around the clock without any rest or stop. To save the lives of hundreds of injured people who reach our hospital,
The Palestinian doctor described what is happening as a nightmare that he hopes will end quickly, as the doctor has a family and children and lives in a constant state of anxiety for fear that his family will be targeted by Israeli aircraft. He added by saying: Imagine that we work 24 hours, meaning there is never time to rest as we continue our work continuously.
The Palestinian doctor talks about the situation that affected him the most, which was working to resuscitate a 16-year-old Palestinian child who was seriously injured in the lower limbs, head, and abdomen, and his heart stopped. There is another seriously injured child who looks at them with a broken look because he lost all his family members and he is the only one left. The family that was exterminated, adding: Difficult situations and harsh moments pass us by amid a complete inability to stop these massacres and massacres.
Dr. Mahmoud Saad El-Din continued in his speech: Imagine that you are responsible for making a decision in the life of a person who is in a hopeless situation, and all cases are like this, and we try as much as possible to save what we can of children whose families were completely exterminated, and they look at us with a look of sadness and sorrow.
The Palestinian doctor continues in his speech, which is dominated by brokenness, that he used to live in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza, which is one of the most luxurious neighborhoods, but the complete targeting of the neighborhood forced its residents to flee to other areas, for fear of indiscriminate aerial targeting by Israeli occupation army planes. He continued: We moved to Deir. Al-Balah to live with one of our relatives. My family is large and includes my family, my brother’s family, as well as my sister and my cousins. We all dispersed, each one in one place, searching for a safe place.
Al-Rimal neighborhood is considered one of the most prestigious residential neighborhoods in Gaza and is inhabited by the elite of the Palestinian community in the Strip due to the presence of important institutions and legal persons. The Israeli warplanes deliberately wiped out this neighborhood and pushed its residents to migrate towards the south.
The Palestinian doctor confirmed that the area to which they moved in Deir al-Balah is also unsafe, with the continued indiscriminate and violent bombardment and the continuing sounds of drones throughout the day in Gaza. The hospital in which he works is small because its capacity is 160 beds, 8 care beds, and 5 operating rooms, and despite that The hospital bears three times its capacity.
The Palestinian doctor adds: Eight care beds have become 20, and the five operating rooms can accommodate many times the scheduled number. The delivery rooms have been added to the operations to accommodate the huge numbers, and yet we are unable to bear the horror of the touching human stories, pain and brokenness that we see.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the complete collapse of the health system after more than 60 hospitals and health centers were out of service. The situation may deteriorate completely as fuel runs out, the lack of which caused the complete collapse of Gaza’s hospitals.
The Palestinian doctor continues to describe the general situation inside the hospital where he works. Palestinian citizens are sleeping in hospitals, and dozens of tents have been set up in front of the hospital building for patients who have unstable health conditions. We, as doctors, have been exhausted as human beings, and our energy as medical staff has almost run out due to the superstitious effort, fatigue, and tension that we experience every day. Moment.
After interrupting contact for an hour with the Palestinian doctor due to fluctuations in communications in Gaza, he returned to tell us about the cases he had received before the interruption of contact, including, for example, the case of an injured child who lost his entire family, adding: The truth is that I, as a father, am terrified and terrified because my children are also in danger and threatened to be bombed. At any time.
The number of Palestinian martyrs as a result of the Israeli aggression reached more than 6,000 martyrs, including more than 2,500 children.
The Palestinian doctor confirmed that he was keen to avoid social media during the aggression on Gaza because of the harsh scenes he saw, and added: Every time I open pictures on social media platforms, I start crying intensely like a little child… Today our colleague received the news of the martyrdom of her one brother and she returned home. Another colleague in anesthesia, whose children were injured in the bombing, and the day before yesterday, a colleague of ours received the news of his daughter’s martyrdom, and today he is at the helm of his work. Imagine with me these deadly situations that we are exposed to on a daily basis.
Contact with Dr. Mahmoud is cut off again, and we call him again for fear that he may have been exposed to any harm, but he responds that a child arrived at the hospital and suffered a fractured skull and broken femurs, as well as a child injured in various parts of his body in the abdomen and a fractured spine, asking for prayers for him. Contact finally returns with the doctor, who appears crying and collapsed: We tried to save the child from death, but he rose and said a final sentence that killed us all: Let me sleep myself.
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2023-10-26 10:37:00
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