According to doctors, operations are carried out with the help of a mobile phone flashlight, and wounds are washed with vinegar.
There is a critical humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. There is not enough medicine, water, food and fuel. Doctors say that they perform operations without anesthesia.
This is stated in an article by The New York Times.
The publication writes that doctors and nurses in hospitals in Gaza, where there is almost no electricity or basic supplies, say they now must decide which patients should be given ventilators, intensive care, or any treatment at all. Without enough water, they cannot provide adequate sanitation for their patients, wash wounds or clean bed linens. At Kamala Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, operations are performed using a cellphone flashlight, one doctor said. Vinegar is sometimes used to disinfect wounds.
“They make instant decisions amid the screams of small children undergoing amputations or brain surgeries without anesthesia or clean water to wash wounds,” the publication’s website says.
“Our teams are physically and psychologically exhausted. Some doctors stay in the hospital for a whole week. Some of their families are brought to the hospital dead or wounded. And some doctors return home and die there,” said Basem al-Najjar, deputy director of Al-Aqsa Hospital in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Damage from airstrikes and severe fuel shortages have left nearly half of Gaza's hospitals completely closed. Currently there are 19 medical institutions.
Doctors say patients coming in with cardiac arrest are not resuscitated because they are helping patients with a better chance of survival. Few of the seriously wounded receive a hospital bed.
In addition to all these problems, according to medical workers, hospitals have also become temporary orphanages.
“In some cases, children ended up in hospital after their entire families were killed during the war or watched their parents die on hospital gurneys or tile floors. Medical staff cared for some children until a relative arrived to pick them up.” , writes the authors of the news agency.
Let us remind you that the Israeli Defense Forces reported that their military began to advance deeper into Gaza City.
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