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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Medical crisis in Gaza hospitals at ‘unimaginable’ level, aid agencies say

Doctors in the European hospital wearing masks and gowns as they carry out surgery.
A delegation of doctors from aid agencies spent two weeks at the European hospital near Khan Younis, where they carried out emergency surgeries. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The medical situation in Gaza’s hospitals has reached an “unimaginable” state of crisis in which large open wounds are being left untreated and medical staff are facing chronic shortages of the most basic medical items, including surgical gauze and material to pin fractures.

The description of conditions was delivered by an emergency medical team organised by three aid groups that spent two weeks carrying out surgeries and other care at the European hospital near Khan Younis.

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