Healthcare system in Gaza has 'essentially collapsed', with children suffering severe burns to the point where their facial bones are visible, medical professionals who visited the besieged enclave, tell the UN at an event in New York.
Healthcare system in Gaza has 'essentially collapsed', with children suffering severe burns to the point where their facial bones are visible, medical professionals who visited the besieged enclave, tell the UN at an event in New York.Injured Palestinians, including children, are brought to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for medical treatment, following Israeli attacks on a house belonging to the al Habbash family in the Nuseirat Camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza on March 19, 2024.
The four doctors from the United States, United Kingdom and France have been working with teams in Gaza to support its healthcare system, which has been reeling since Israel began its military assault there last October. Nick Maynard, a surgeon who was last in Gaza in January with British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians, recalled seeing a child who had been burned so badly that he could see her facial bones.
An other seven-year-old child, Hiyam Abu Khdeir, arrived at the Gaza European Hospital with third-degree burns on her body, after an Israeli airstrike on her home killed her father and brother and injured her mother, said Zaher Sahloul, a critical care specialist with humanitarian group MedGlobal.
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