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Injuries and martyrs arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following heavy Israeli air strikes in Al-Taabin area in Al-Zawaida, central Gaza. pic.twitter.com/gtnqwpdzOw
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) March 25, 2024
How can an open wound be left untreated?
The medical situation in Gaza’s hospitals has reached an “unimaginable” state of crisis in which large open wounds are being left untreated and medical staff are facing chronic shortages of the most basic medical items, including surgical gauze and material to pin fractures.
The description of conditions was delivered by an emergency medical team organised by three aid groups that spent two weeks carrying out surgeries and other care at the European hospital near Khan Younis.
Doctors from the delegation carrying out a surgery.
Describing their visit to the Khan Younis hospital, the emergency medical team statement said healthcare workers had been forced to evacuate or were unable to access the hospital.
It said Israeli restrictions had led to shortages of medical supplies, including basics such as gauze and plates and screws used to stabilise broken bones.
Vital medical supplies had been caught up in Israel’s restriction of aid to Gaza, which had brought large parts of the territory to the brink of a “man-made famine”, senior UN officials said last week.
The statement was released as Israeli forces continued to assault two major Gaza hospitals, including al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which has been the focus of recent heavy clashes after Israeli forces said Hamas had tried to entrench itself in the hospital buildings.
The visiting surgeons “reported large infected open wounds on patients and having to administer emergency nutritional supplies to patients as the lack of food was jeopardising patient treatment”.
Dr Konstantina Ilia Karydi, an anaesthetist who is a member of the visiting emergency medical team, which includes Medical Aid for Palestinians, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, described harrowing scenes at the European hospital.
“The situation is unimaginable,” said Karydi. “This hospital had an original capacity of just 200 beds, and at the moment it has expanded to 1,000 beds.
“There are around 22,000 people that have been displaced from other parts of Gaza sheltering in the corridors and in tents inside the hospital, because people feel that it’s safer to be here than anywhere else.”
While the team’s surgeons said they had completed successful complex vascular and orthopaedic surgeries on patients, some of the patients later died due to infections in the hospitals and the inability to provide post-operative care, a problem that has plagued trauma care in Gaza for months.
Karydi’s account was echoed by Arvind Das, the IRC’s Gaza team leader. “The situation we’re facing is beyond comprehension. Continuous Israeli military operations near hospitals are making an already tense situation even worse for those seeking shelter or medical help, pushing the healthcare system to the brink of collapse.
The Jews are going to need to be held responsible for this.
What they are doing is intolerable.
A Palestinian survivor, who endured Israeli occupation attacks near al-Shifa Hospital, recounts the horrifying scenes, stating that they witnessed Israeli forces conducting field executions before being forced to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip.#AlShifa_Hospital_underattack pic.twitter.com/AhaQbWcQqn
— Dr. Zain Abbadi (@ZainAbbadi11) March 25, 2024
