AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): A British doctor of Palestinian origin described doctors and health workers in Gaza as real heroes.
Basil Badir, an orthopaedic specialist from the team IDEALS, affiliated with the Islamic Aid charity organization in the UK, said medical teams in the Gaza Strip are exhausted, dealing with large numbers of patients.
“The medical staff (at the European Gaza Hospital in the city of Khan Younis) is very exhausted, and the emergency department always receives patients with difficult and complex cases,” said
Badir, who arrived in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 25 with four doctors, stressed that health teams in Gaza are exhausted, especially those working in hospital emergency departments.
He said the role of the British medical team is to “try to alleviate the suffering of their colleagues working in the medical field in Gaza, even if only in a small way.”
Describing doctors in the Gaza Strip as “real heroes,” Badir noted that patients transferred from the northern Gaza Strip to its southern part due to incomplete treatments face difficult health complications.
“Before the hospitals in the north of Gaza were closed, many patients who had received partial treatment were forcibly sent to the southern part. These individuals are experiencing serious health problems due to the incomplete treatment,” he added.
Emphasizing the challenging health situation at the European Gaza Hospital, where there are at least 900 patients and injured people, Badir said this number is twice the normal capacity during regular times.
He said his accompanying health team has been visiting the Gaza Strip periodically for about 13 years, around eight to nine times a year, focusing on surgical areas.
Last Sunday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the destruction of the health system in the Gaza Strip as a “tragedy” on X.
The Palestinian death toll from the Israeli army’s ongoing attacks on Gaza since 7 October is close to 22,000, with over 56,000 wounded.
The Israeli regime's onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicines.
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