Dr. Mohamed Al -Manasir, a consultant of kidney and urology, said that the medicines in the Gaza Strip are not available and the medical devices are very old, and the medical consumers that originally are reused are licensed to be used once, as a result of the severe shortage.
Al -Manasir had spent two weeks in Gaza as part of a delegation of the Rahma Foundation around the world, and his work was in the Nasser Medical Complex.
Dr. Al -Manasir said – in exclusive statements to Al -Jazeera – that with regard to the nature of the cases that he witnessed, they were divided into two main parts. Urinary also due to a fragment in the bladder.
He added, “The second section of cases is related to kidney disease and urinary tract, which occurs naturally and has nothing to do with the war, as we provided a number of medical consultations regarding medical conditions, in addition to conducting a number of surgeries, such as eradicating kidney tumors and eradicating a large abscess in the college area, and we also carried out the ureter transplant for a child due to the blockage in the ureter connection area with bladder and endoscopy for the ureter and kidneys to remove stoves.”
Also, there were operations for the college basin, removal of stones, operations related to the genital organs in children, and male immigrant testicle operations.
We also performed some operations related to the presence of an abscess around the college due to urinary tract infections. “
He added, “Of course, we are undoubtedly as doctors regardless of the specialization.
Medical consumer
Al -Manasir said, “With regard to the difficulties facing the health sector in Gaza, they are very many and are distributed on more than one side. The first aspect in relation to medical consumers is not available, and medical consumers that originally are reused are licensed to use once and are reintestined more once with something that I have not seen in my life and I did not know that it can be done, of course this is not allowed medically and scientifically, but because of the severe shortage of this Consumer has only to resort to this method of re -sterilizing medical consumers and reusing them for patients.
He added that the drugs are also not available, and the medical devices are very old, and that there is a need to purchase medical devices.
He said that in the specialty of urinary tract there is a lack of laser devices and the fragmentation of gravel, as well as endoscopic devices of all kinds and shapes are old devices and need to renew very urgently.
He added, “As for the other difficulties regarding health cadres, everyone knows that it is over a year and a half without interruption, and this means exhausting them, and there are some specializations that are not already available in the Gaza Strip due to the migration of some medical competencies such as the specialties of arteries, chest surgery, neurosurgery and oncology.”
Another aspect is the subject of the availability of beds, as the number of available is very few, and often we could not perform operations for some patients.
Al -Manasir said that the health sector in Gaza needs very great efforts, and it needs material and organizational efforts and planning at the highest levels to advance, needs tremendous material support, and the issue needs a time that is not easy, and the Arab -Islamic countries must take this issue very much, and contribute to the rehabilitation of the health sector in Gaza.
malnutrition
Dr. Al -Manasir said that “malnutrition is present for all people in the Gaza Strip, there is no diversity in food, the basic elements and vitamins are definitely a shortage of all people due to the decline in the available types of food, and this is reflected negatively in any patient, of course, it needs any kind of medical interventions and affects the speed of his recovery from his illness.”
He added that one of the problems is the difficulties in rehabilitating the injured, especially those who lost their limbs, as these are urgent and urgently to install industrial limbs, then start rehabilitation, because delaying this may affect the level of re -engagement of these people in society and their ability to be productive people.
When we asked about a humanitarian position he witnessed, Manasir said that “human positions are many. Every scene in Gaza is a very influential humanitarian position, which we were not used to, the people who are outside Gaza.”
He continued, “One of these positions is the scene of a forty -year -old man who entered the emergency hall in a state of panic and searching in a hysterical way for any trace of his loved ones in the hospital, he entered the recovery room and did not find his children, he entered the emergency hall and did not find them, he communicated with his relatives, he went to the European Hospital, so he may find them there, but unfortunately in the end he found the three children in the morgue, and this led to the man losing his mind.”
Warning
Yesterday, Monday, an official in the Palestinian Ministry of Health and hospital directors in the Gaza Strip warned that a real catastrophe will be resolved by the health system and hospitals working in the minimum in the Gaza Strip due to the continued Israeli siege and preventing the entry of medical supplies and aid.
The officials in separate interviews with the Qatar News Agency (Qena) said that the tight blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation forces on the Gaza Strip and the prevention of the entry of medicine and food lead to the loss of the lives of innocent people, the sick and the wounded of all ages, especially the children’s category.
The Director of the Indonesian Hospital, northern Gaza Strip, Dr. Marwan Al -Sultan, confirmed that the hospital suffers from a real catastrophe, and he cannot provide medical services to patients and the wounded Israeli shelling due to a lack of fuel and medicines in it due to the continuous aggression on the sector and the closure of crossings.
The Sultan pointed out that the hospital departments have become crowded with the wounded, in addition to the accumulation of patients on the intensive care beds that need to operate the electricity generators around the clock, so that they can continue to operate the industrial breathing devices connected to the wounded and patients.
He stressed that the closure of the Gaza Strip crossings for more than 64 days, respectively, exacerbated the suffering of patients, especially those with chronic diseases of the elderly, pregnant women and children, and this is accompanied by the depletion of the drug inventory, the spread of malnutrition, the spread of anemia and weak immunity.
The Director of the Indonesian Hospital appealed to all international and humanitarian organizations hard and rapid work to provide the hospital with the fuel needed to operate it, otherwise a real catastrophe warns of the death of a large number of wounded and sick patients in intensive care departments.
The Sultan called on the international community, the World Health Organization, the International Red Cross, and the relevant institutions to work to introduce shipments of medicines and medical supplies to ensure the continued service to patients to preserve their lives.
He warned of the dangerous repercussions to deplete the stocks of medicines and medical supplies from hospital warehouses and the Ministry of Health in general.
For his part, the director of Kuwait Specialist Hospital, southern Gaza Strip, said that the sector suffers from a severe shortage of more than 75% of the basic drugs, which led to a serious decline in the ability to provide treatment services to patients.
Al -Hams stressed that the ability to continue to provide health services has become at stake, explaining that the remaining stocks of medicines and medical supplies are not enough for days, which threatens to stop most of the medical services in the hospital if the urgent and immediate intervention is not done.
“We are the alarm to the acute shortage of most medicines, basic foods and medical supplies,” he added.
Imminent collapse
“We are approaching an imminent collapse in the health system in the Gaza Strip as a result of the severe shortage of medicines and medical and food supplies necessary to care for patients, in light of the continued Israeli aggression, the closure of crossings, and the prevention of the introduction of aid,” Al -Hams said.
For his part, the assistant undersecretary in the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Maher Shamia, said that the Israeli occupation prevents international and international institutions from reaching the fuel storage places designated for hospitals on the pretext that they are located in red areas.
Shamia stressed that the disability of the access of fuel supplies to hospitals threatens to stop working, in light of the fact that it depends completely on the generators to provide the vital departments with energy, explaining that the available amounts of fuel in hospitals are sufficient for only a few days.
The humanitarian and health crisis in the Gaza Strip is getting worse, as the occupation continues to target medical, humanitarian and charitable institutions – whether international or local – that seek to provide vital services in light of the suspension of many of them due to aggression and the closure of crossings and the prevention of the entry of humanitarian and medical aid.
The health sector in Gaza is suffering from a suffocating crisis with the continued prevention of the entry of medicines and medical supplies and continues to target the Israeli medical teams through killing or arrest, in addition to the systematic destruction of the main hospitals, in light of the escalation of the continuous Israeli aggression on the besieged sector.
Source : Tel Aviv Tribune + Qatar News Agency (Qena)