Gaza Doctor describes daily fighting after the collapse of the health system

Healthcare in the Gaza Strip is a 18 -month war between Israel and Hamas. When doctors fought, the BBC followed one doctor through their shift at the Médecins Sans Frontères Clinic (MSF).

By 07:30, a small figure in a pink handkerchief, a d -ry bitch, choosing its way through the devastated streets of Gaza.

“I walked about 50 minutes to get to our clinic,” she explains when she was met by a local BBC journalist who helped us enter her day. There is virtually no fuel in the gas, little taxis work.

“With the help of our limited resources, we are still trying to be here in the Northern Gaza in these difficult times,” adds Dr. Sukar.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says only 21 out of 36 gas hospitals are now partly functional. Medical materials work with critically low from the permanent blockade of Israel.

The general doctor shows that she is left of her former workplace, the MSF Burns Clinic, which came under fire in the first weeks of the war, during street battles between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters.

Now her team has transformed the office west of Gaza into the clinic – and until 9:30, when Dr. Sukkar puts his white coat, about 150 people waiting on the street.

“Most of our patients are moved by people,” says D -Rac. “They live in shelters, even live in tents on the streets.”

Since a month ago, a month ago, thousands of gases left their homes again and escaped into this neighborhood, looking for safety.

With small food and clean water there is an increase in malnutrition and diseases – from gastric bugs to scabies. Elderly and young people were injured, and the first patients of the day are infants with viral infections.

“We get a lot of children suffering from upper respiratory and diarrhea infections. There are many children in the shelter, and the virus can spread very quickly,” the doctor explains.

One baby has a face -covered mosquito bites, and Dr. Sukkar manages a soothing cream. As the culinary gas ended, the families came to the use of open fires for thermal food, and this also led to increased serious burns.

For an hour, Doctor Sukar and three other doctors saw dozens of patients. But there are a lot to whom they fight to help.

“We have more and more problems with a huge number of patients with less and less medical materials,” D -sker says tiredly.

“In addition, we get difficult cases, and we do not know where to send these patients because the health care system has fallen apart.”

Since last Sunday when last Sunday there was a tributary in severe injured patients who arrived at the clinic Israeli combat aircraft attacked the Arab Hospital al-Al-Gaza.

Israel accused Hamas of using a hospital building as a “team center”; Something armed group denied.

Al -al – which was the main medical site for the treatment of injuries in northern gas – can no longer take patients. The WHO, which says, in intensive care, laboratories, X -rays and pharmacy were destroyed.

“I started treatment in Hospital al-ShiffThen I was transferred to al-al-al-al-and bombed it,-tells Said brother, an older man with a broken hip bone who comes to the MSF clinic on crutches.

He underwent surgery after being injured by Israeli artillery fire to the shelter, where he stopped at the end of last year. His studs are in his leg, and he was swollen.

“I came here for any treatment for the following,” says Mr Barcat when the nurses change their dressing and give new painkillers.

In the afternoon, when Dr. Sukkar checks a small pharmacy in the clinic, she looks worried. Many shelves are naked.

Israel closed all the transitions to the gas in early March, stating that he was putting pressure on Hamas to release the remaining hostages he holds. Since then, no help has entered.

“We do not have insulin in diabetes, we do not have the treatments for epilepsy, we do not have the main medicines such as anti-iso-made drugs,” Dr. Sukar says.

“This is a season for skin infections, and we do not have creams and ointments for bacterial infections, no medicines for the treatment of scabies and head lice.”

Doctors normalize the supplies that remain.

“We are doing our best to make it enough for the next week,” the doctor sums up, “but we expect our shares to end more than two weeks.”

Soon Dr. Sukcar returned to his consultative hall. Watering patients continues with many more sick children. They have a cough, fever and stomach disorder.

By 15:30 it was time to close the clinic a day. Four doctors estimated that they saw nearly 390 patients.

After a long, tedious day there is a long tedious walking home for Dr. Sukkar.

When she leaves the clinic, she called her family. Her thoughts are being carried out by her children who have been moved nine times in the last year and a half.

“Like every gas, I have a daily struggle for providing clean water, food for my children,” says D -or Sukar. “We don’t have electricity, so it is even difficult to even charge my mobile battery.”

“Most of all, it is very difficult to have hope,” she continues. “I feel like living in a nightmare that does not end. When will this war end?”

So far there is no answer, and no respite.