Washington, SANA-Besides the suffering of Palestinian people in Gaza because access to food care, humanitarian aid is not available due to the Israeli blockade on the Strip, doctors also struggle to survive and maintain their activities because of starvation, which sometimes makes it difficult for them to stand while treating patients in hospitals.
CNN reported in an article titled (The weak treating the weak) said that doctors in Gaza are fainting while trying to save their starving patients
The American News Network said that Dr. Mohammad Saqer suffers hunger. So ravenous that he sometimes struggles to keep upright while treating his desperately ill patients at the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, he fainted while working then, moments after recovering, he returned to finish his 24-hour shift.
CNN added that As Gaza’s hunger crisis deepens, the very people who are trying to keep the gravely malnourished population alive are suffering along with their patients.
Dr. Saqer said the number of his colleagues who have fainted at work has risen rapidly in recent days, with doctors and nurses across multiple departments collapsing from hunger and exhaustion.
Dr. Fadel Naim, a surgeon and the director of the Al-Ahli Al-Arabi hospital, in the north of the Strip, told CNN “Since I am the director of the hospital, one of my tasks is to find food for the staff … we aren’t getting enough food. If we have one meal a day, we are lucky, it’s very hard to continue like that,”
“We are physically drained, and we are required to treat patients who are equally drained. Exhausted people treating other exhausted people, the hungry treating the hungry, the weak treating the weak,” he said.
One of the doctors told CNN that the hospital’s kitchen has run out of food and the international humanitarian kitchen that previously fed doctors, nurses and the families of patients has also shut down.
“Everyone working inside the hospital is without food. Doctors and nurses are working 24-hour shifts on empty stomachs,” the doctor added
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned Friday that one in five children in Gaza City is malnourished and cases are increasing every day.
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