{"id":195166,"date":"2023-10-23T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=195166"},"modified":"2023-10-23T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T22:21:06","slug":"desperate-doctors-in-gaza-forced-to-operate-on-patients-without-painkillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/desperate-doctors-in-gaza-forced-to-operate-on-patients-without-painkillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate doctors in Gaza ‘forced to operate on patients without painkillers’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doctors in Gaza are operating on patients without the right painkillers, the chief of a relief agency has said.<\/p>\n

Essential supplies of morphine and other painkillers in the Palestinian region, which has been besieged by Israel since October 9, are now dwindling.<\/p>\n

Leo Cans, the head of mission in Jerusalem for Doctors Without Borders, told CNN: “We currently have people being operated on without having morphine.<\/p>\n

“It just happened to two kids.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We have a lot of kids that are unfortunately among the wounded, and I was discussing with one of our surgeons, who received a 10-year-old yesterday, burnt on 60 per cent of the body surface, and he didn\u2019t end up having painkillers.”<\/p>\n

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The care provider said there was “no justification” for Israel continuing to block “essential medicine” from arriving in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Israel has allowed more than 50 trucks containing aid to enter Gaza recently but according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the supplies are a “drop in the ocean”.<\/p>\n

The head of a neonatal unit in a Gaza hospital has warned it will run out of fuel within the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n

Dr Hatem Edhair of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, said: “Half of these children are on CPAP (pressurized air) machines and oxygen machines.”<\/p>\n

He added: “If the hospital runs out of fuel, half of these babies will die in less than 24 hours.”<\/p>\n

Doctors treating premature babies across Gaza have warned that at least 130 are at “grave risk” across six neonatal units because of worsening fuel shortages.<\/p>\n

“We are working around the clock,” Dr Edair said.<\/p>\n

“We need to save these babies.”<\/p>\n


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