Lauren Dunn is the executive editor of the NBC News Medical Unit.
Adnan Sawada was at work in Maryland on Oct. 17 when he got a frantic phone call from thousands of miles away in Gaza. It was his 36-year-old nephew calling with devastating news. His father, Adnan’s oldest brother, had just died at a Gaza hospital. “His son was screaming,” Adnan said in a phone interview. “They got to him too late.
Now hospital workers lack simple dressings for all the burns they’re treating. Because there’s not enough anesthesia equipment or anesthesiologists for surgery, the medical staff has been forced to use ketamine as an anesthetic, Abu-Sittah said. Ketamine can be used for general anesthesia, but it’s typically used only for shorter procedures, like fixing dislocations and fractures. Adnan Sawada’s brother Shaaban never got anesthesia when he went to one of the Gaza hospitals.
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