Health care workers are struggling to provide even the basics.
Palestinian ambulances arrive outside the Rafah border crossing. On Wednesday the crossing was opened for the first time since Oct. 7, according to AFP.Gaza’s health care system is in catastrophic shape. Without access to basic resources, Gaza’s hospitals—and the people who work within them—have been forced into unconventional practices. Medical teams have had to rationare in limited supply.
Now, the health care system is catastrophic, with every possible meaning this word can have. Right now they’re performing surgeries on wounded patients in the recovery room. The operating room is no longer enough to manage the amount of people who come in each and every night. Even people living in the other part of Palestine, people living in the West Bank, whom I have known through student-led organizations and voluntary work that we have been doing in medical school, they’re still checking on us and trying so hard to be there for us and telling us that we’re not alone.I pray to God that they don’t stop—that people elsewhere don’t get used to it. Because getting used to this is the worst thing that can ever happen to humanity.
Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced into UNRWA schools, with very, very limited hygiene products. There have been talks about breakouts of cholera because of the polluted water. There has been talk about breakout of lice among children staying there.
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