Patients in Gaza hospitals are dying of sepsis due to a lack of antibiotics. Doctors are being forced to amputate limbs to save lives as they lack resources to treat injuries. The number of disabilities is expected to increase after the war.
Patients have been dying of sepsis amid a lack of antibiotics at hospitals in Gaza where babies ‘are born and placed in a corridor’ as they have no homes
“This is really, really bad,” said Dr Murad, who lost seven members of his family just a few days ago and fears for his remaining relatives in Khan Younis, a city in the south to which many fled after Israel’s order to evacuate the north. “The number of disabilities will increase after this war.” Dr Murad corroborated reports of the hospital being asked to evacuate as he said the Israeli army told them it “is now a dangerous place”. But patients receiving life-support cannot leave – and many pf the medics plan to stay with them.
He said that 60-70 people can arrive at the hospital’s emergency department at one time, and staff are no longer carrying out CPR. “We are not going to try, we will let this patient die and we will select a patient who will benefit from ICU.” Dr Akkad said patients are at times treated on the floor because the hospital’s eight surgical rooms are not enough when mass casualties arrive.“Some of them lose their life before they reach the operation theatre. We’ve never faced this misery. It’s a massacre,” he said.
Many are showing up at the emergency departments with severe burns, Dr Akkad said, but they don’t have a burns unit to treat them.
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