Gaza's Exhausted Doctors Leave Children To Die

 

The ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas has resulted in thousands of injuries in the Gaza Strip. The conflict between Israel’s military and Hamas fighters has a particularly negative effect on women and children.

The massive influx of patients arriving from the north of Gaza is causing insurmountable challenges for the medical personnel at the European hospital in Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. Among the patients arriving from the north of Gaza, they must choose who should live and who should die.

Children must be left to perish at the overburdened European hospital in Khan Younis. The hospital also lacks medicine, food rations, and consistent power, saying, “We are overwhelmed.”

In medical facilities, injured people — including children — were looking for safety and refuge. The Guardian was informed by Paul Ley, an orthopedic specialist at the European hospital, that homeless people were camped out in elevators.

In four operating rooms, the physicians were working nonstop to amputate limbs that were diseased and receiving no medical attention. But there was a severe lack of analgesics. To save hospital resources and painkillers, the doctors had to make the difficult choice to let a 12-year-old kid die with just palliative care.

Many of the kids that came to the hospital had been hurt a few days prior, so their wounds had become septic. For ten days, the patient’s dressings were not changed. Worms swarmed the wounds of the children.