Medics say some doctors forced to operate without anaesthesia and using vinegar in place of antiseptic
A child being cared for at northern Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, which has taken on extra patients from the nearby Indonesian hospital.A child being cared for at northern Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, which has taken on extra patients from the nearby Indonesian hospital.are ceasing to function because they are running out of water and fuel for generators, while being overwhelmed by huge numbers of casualties and civilians seeking shelter from Israeli bombing.
“We have no fuel to run the standby generators, and those who are affected first are the operation rooms, the intensive care units and emergency rooms,” Dr Medhat Abbass, the director general of the Gaza health ministry, said. Video posted on Tuesday showed the Indonesian hospital in north Gaza in total blackout after the generators failed, with the sole illumination from mobile phones.
Salaam, a consultant surgeon, said she had been faced with the dilemma of two patients who needed space in an intensive care unit. “The remainder of the hospitals are functioning at less than a bare minimum capacity as a consequence of the large burden of injuries and rupture of supply of many of the medications and of course the supply of fuel,” she said.
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