Article 6GM7C ‘We are overwhelmed’: southern Gaza’s exhausted doctors forced to leave children to die

‘We are overwhelmed’: southern Gaza’s exhausted doctors forced to leave children to die

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Jason Burke in Jerusalem
from World news | The Guardian on (#6GM7C)

A surgeon at one of the territory's last functioning hospitals tells of desperate conditions amid an acute lack of medicine

In the crowded corridors of the European hospital in Khan Younis, exhausted doctors decide who among the huge influx of patients arriving from the north of Gaza should live or die.

Hundreds of casualties have moved south in recent days after the evacuation of hospitals in Gaza City, overwhelming medical staff already struggling with an acute lack of medicine, diminishing food rations and intermittent power and communications.

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