Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are running out of everything under the Israeli blockade that cut power, deliveries of food and other necessities to the territory.
| The only thing worse than the screams of a patient undergoing surgery without enough anaesthesia are the terror-stricken faces of those awaiting their turn, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon says.
“These people are all terrified, and so am I,” the surgeon said. “But there is no way we’ll evacuate.”from Egypt on Saturday after being stalled on the border for days. Four trucks in the 20-truck aid convoy were carrying drugs and medical supplies, the World Health Organisation said. Aid workers and doctors warned it was not nearly enough to address Gaza’s spiralling humanitarian crisis.
“We are doing what we can to stabilise the patients, to control the situation,” he said. “People are dying because of this.” In some hospitals, the lights have already switched off. At Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis this week, nurses and surgical assistants held their iPhones over the operating table, guiding the surgeons with the flashlights as they snipped.
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