Just a few weeks ago, the Gaza Strip’s weak fitness formula deals with an outbreak of coronavirus cases. Authorities cleaned hospital operating rooms, discontinued non-essential care, and reassigned doctors to patients with breathing difficulties.
Then the bombs began to fall, in reaction to rocket bombardments fired through Hamas terrorist leaders from Gaza and other terrorist teams in Israel.
This week’s violence between Israel and terrorist teams in Gaza, which introduced more than 2,000 rockets into Israeli cities and killed nine others, has killed 119 Palestinians, adding 31 minors and wounding 830 other people in impoverished territory, according to the Hamas Ministry. Israeli airstrikes hit apartments, detonated cars and demolished buildings that, according to Jerusalem, were used for terrorist activities.
Israel contends that most of the dead in Gaza were members of terrorist teams or, in some cases, killed by lost Palestinian rockets that landed inside the strip.
Doctors in the overcrowded coastal enclave are now reassigning large beds in care units and are suffering to cope with a very different fitness crisis: the treatment of explosion and shrapnel wounds, cut bandages and amputations.
Distressed relatives did wait for ambulances, transporting the injured by car or on foot to Shifa Hospital, the largest in the territory; exhausted doctors ran from patient to patient, frantically selling shrapnel wounds to prevent bleeding. , waiting with stretchers to remove the bodies for burial.
At the Indonesian hospital in the northern city of Jabaliya, the clinic overflowed after bombs fell nearby, there was blood everywhere, the sick were lying on the floor of the corridors, relatives invaded the emergency room, screaming for their loved ones and cursing Israel.
“Before the army attacks, we were severely scarce and we may deal with the wave (virus) of the moment,” Abdelatif al-Hajj, an official of the Hamas-led ministry of fitness in Gaza, said by phone as the bombs hit the bottom. “Now those who suffer come from all directions, actually critical patients. I’m worried about a general collapse.
Devastated by years of conflict, the impoverished fitness formula of more than 2 million people has been vulnerable. The bitter department between Hamas and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and a nearly 14-year blockade imposed through Israel and Egypt to save it. Hamas for arming himself has also strangled the infrastructure; there is a shortage of appliances and materials such as blood bags, surgical lamps, anesthesia and antibiotics; personal protective devices, breathing apparatus and oxygen tanks are even rarer.
Last month, daily cases and coronavirus deaths in Gaza reached record levels, driven by the spread of a variant that gave the first impression in Britain, the easing of movement restrictions during Ramadan, and worsening public apathy and intransigence.
In a bombed territory where the unemployment rate is 50 cents, the need for non-public survival exceeds existing public aptitude calls with them. While virus testing remains limited, the epidemic has inflamed more than 105,700 people, according to physical fitness authorities, and killed 976.
As cases increased last year, raising fears of a physical disaster, the government has reserved clinics for COVID-19 patients. But that was replaced when the airstrikes hit the territory.
Nurses at the European hospital in Khan Younis city, desperately in need of an area for the injured, moved dozens of patients inflamed by the virus in the middle of the night to another building, hospital director Yousef al-Akkad said. surgeons and specialists, who had been deployed by the virus, rushed to treat head injuries, fractures and abdominal wounds.
If the confrontation intensifies, the hospital will not treat patients inflamed by the virus, al-Akkad said.
“We have 15 intensive care beds, and all I can do is pray,” he said, adding that because the hospital lacked surgical equipment and experience, he had already arranged for a child to be sent to Egypt for reconstructive shoulder surgery. pray that such airstrikes will be prevented soon. “
In Shifa, the government also transferred the injured to the 30 hospital beds that had been reserved for patients inflamed by the virus. Thursday night was the quietest of the week for the ICU, with bombs largely falling in other parts of Gaza. The wounded lay amid the roar of sound monitors, intercoms and occasional cries from doctors. Some relatives hueked around him, recounting the chaotic prey.
“Approximately 12 other people in a single airstrike. It’s the street. Some died, besides my two cousins and my younger sister. It is like this every day,” said Atallah al-Masri, 22, sitting next door to his wounded brother, Ghassan.
The hospital’s director, Mohammed Abu Selmia, deplored the latest beating in Gaza’s fitness system.
“The Gaza Strip has been under siege for 14 years and the fitness sector is exhausted. Then comes the coronavirus pandemic,” he said, adding that most of the device is as old as the blockage and will be sent to repair.
Now, their teams, which have already been leaked through virus cases, treat those affected by the bombings, more of which are critical cases that require surgery.
“They paint tirelessly, ” he added.
To make matters worse, Israeli air movements hit two clinics north of Gaza City on Tuesday and wreaked havoc at the Hala al-Shawa gymnasium, forcing workers to evacuate and damage the Indonesian hospital, according to the World Health Organization.
Since Monday, terrorist teams in Gaza have fired some 2,000 rockets and mortars at Israel. The Israeli army in turn hit tons of sites in the coastal enclave, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to ask Hamas for his relentless indiscriminate rocket attack.
Israel, already under pressure from an international criminal court investigation into war crimes imaginable during the 2014 war, reiterated this week that it was making wonderful efforts to warn others living in selected spaces to flee. Hamas-led Ministry of Health and inflicted damage on Gaza’s infrastructure.
The violence has also closed a few dozen gymnasiums that wear down coronavirus tests, said Sacha Bootsma, director of WHO’s Gaza office. This week, the government conducted about three hundred tests a day, up from 3,000 before the fighting began.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, has ordered the stay at home of its 22 clinics for its safety. These now-closed centers had also administered coronavirus vaccines, a valuable resource in a place that waited months for limited delivery. COVAX programme supported by the UN. These doses will expire in a few weeks and will be discarded, with “huge implications for the government’s ability to mobilize more vaccines in the future,” Bootsma said.
For the newly wounded, however, the virus is a last-minute cry.
The last thing Mohammad Nassar remembers before an airstrike was to move from home to a friend on the street. When he arrived, he said, “we discovered liars on the ground.
Now, the 31-year-old man is connected to a tangle of tubes and monitors in the surgical room of Shifa Hospital, with a damaged right arm and a shrapnel wound to his stomach.
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