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International Business Times
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Issam AHMED

US Health Workers Sound Alarm On Gaza Medical Crisis

"Whether or not a ceasefire happens, we have to get humanitarian aid. And we have to get it in sufficient volumes to meet the demands,"  Adam Hamawy, a former US army combat surgeon, tells AFP in an interview after a medical mission to Gaza (Credit: AFP)

Patients in Gaza's few standing hospitals are dying in droves from infections resulting from a lack of protective gear and soap, even when they survive their horrific blast injuries.

And health workers are facing agonizing decisions, like giving up on a seven-year-old boy with extensive burns because bandages are in short supply and he'd have probably died anyway.

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