Tag: Hospitals
Now 87, Samira has lost a great deal of weight during the current genocidal war on Gaza.
She has been repeatedly displaced and forced to live in a tent.
The situation is particularly gruesome for a woman of her age, who has diabetes.
One symptom of diabetes is a need to urinate frequently. Samira does not have a bathroom near her tent.
Using a crutch, she treks to a bathroom a considerable distance away, accompanied by her children. The sound of Israel’s violence is unavoidable on these treks.
Samira rented an apartment before the war began. Israel has now destroyed that apartment.
Pain is a constant presence in her life.
If Samira eats she feels pain. If she is hungry she feels pain.
Samira used to visit the doctor for regular checkups. As Gaza’s healthcare system has been directly attacked and placed under the worst imaginable strain, Samira has not been able to have proper medical assistance.
And so her pain gets worse and worse.
Source: Pain gets worse for Gaza’s older people | The Electronic Intifada
Pampered hernia patient Netanyahu is ultimately responsible for the destruction of more of the planet’s hospitals than anyone since the bombing of Hamburg during the Second World War.
Source: Shattered wards, ill-timed hernias, and the moral bankruptcy of a nation – Pearls and Irritations
Members of an emergency medical team that has treated patients at a hospital in southern Gaza in recent weeks said Monday that the horrors they’ve witnessed there are “unimaginable,” from worsening malnutrition to deadly infections stemming from lack of healthcare equipment.
Source: ‘Beyond Comprehension’: Medical Team Reports Starvation, Infections at Gaza Hospital
On Monday, the Times of Israel reported that the country’s forces intended to unilaterally dismantle UNRWA within Gaza, with its functions hived off to other agencies of the military’s choosing.
While it was not clear which agencies the Israeli military had designated, or if negotiations were under way, the report did note that this move against the agency came as the latest in a longstanding campaign to discredit it, which goes back to UNRWA’s 1949 founding, mandating the agency to support displaced Palestinian refugees until they could return home.
As hunger worsens, with 15 children reported to have starved to death in recent days, UNRWA’s role in helping prevent what agencies are warning of a “humanitarian crisis” grows increasingly vital.
Other agencies, such as the Danish Refugee Council have warned that neither they nor other NGOs still operating in Gaza can replicate UNRWA’s role.
Before Israel’s unprecedented assault on Gaza, the territory had 36 functioning hospitals. Now only 16 partially functioning health facilities remain. As Israeli bombs and ground troops approach Nasser Hospital, the largest remaining partially functioning health facility in Gaza, we speak with Dr. James Smith, an emergency medical doctor recently returned from Gaza, where he worked alongside Palestinian healthcare workers to treat patients at Al-Aqsa Hospital. “Every single day, without exception, there were multiple mass casualty incidents at the hospital,” says Smith. “They would include open chest wounds, open abdominal wounds, traumatic amputations, severe full-thickness burns … really some of the most horrific traumatic injuries that I have ever seen.”
With most hospitals closed, Gaza’s doctors struggle to care for premature babies — often without power.
The Victorian Health Department has warned of rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations, mirroring similar patterns occurring globally due to the spread of the new Omicron sub-variants.
“Just like other healthcare systems around the world, our system has been under unprecedented pressure and we’re investing billions to get it back on track as quickly as possible,” a spokesman said.
COVID Victoria: Elected surgery delays projected to rise
“I have never seen anything like this in my life. There were body parts collected on hospital beds and unbearable scenes.”
London will run out of hospital beds within weeks, NHS England bosses have said. The care body warned that if coronavirus admissions continue at their current rate, the city will be short of 600 critical care beds and 1,500 general hospital beds by 5 January.
NHS England warns London could run out of critical care beds within weeks | The Independent
Five people died at a children’s hospital in Scotland built by Brookfield, billions have been stripped offshore in Australian assets, yet Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has approved the sale of the nursing home and retirement village business Aveo. It will be controlled in Bermuda. This follows the Brookfield takeover of 43 Australian hospitals.
A maternity hospital supported by Save the Children has been bombed in an air raid in Syria’s northwest Idlib province.
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