Hospitals in Gaza have only days of fuel left, surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta said.
Medics transport a wounded woman to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City early on Nov. 6, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.the health sector is on the brink of total collapse.
People, including Palestinian children, who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, gather at Al Shifa hospital where they shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza City Nov. 7, 2023.The Palestinian Health Ministry says that 18 out of the 35 hospitals in Gaza and 51 out of the 72 primary health care clinics have been forced to close either due to a lack of fuel or damage from Israeli bombardment.
The Gazan health system cannot cope, with patients' needs far outstripping the hospitals' capacity, meaning "only the most lifesaving surgeries can now go to the operating room," which can have devastating consequences, Abu Sitta explained. "There's no pain relief. I mean, we operate on patients and then we give them all paracetamol . We've run out of morphine two weeks ago," he said.
Shifa hospital has lost 50% of its operating rooms, Abu Sitta explains, due to the lack of power, and so procedures are happening in the wards and corridors and he calls some of the surgical procedures he has performed "medieval." People gather around an ambulance damaged in a strike in front of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Nov. 3, 2023.Of the over 10,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza, more than 4,000 of them are children, according to the Hamas-run ministry. But many of those that survive the bombardment have been left orphaned.
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