Abdul Qadir Hammad, a doctor from Royal Liverpool Hospital who was stuck in Gaza during a charity trip, is now back in Liverpool. He says that the situation at the hospitals is not a surprise: “The UN agencies have been warning about this for two, three weeks.”
Speaking to BBC World Service’s Newsday this morning, Hammad says when he came out of Gaza last week, Al-Shifa hospital was on the verge of stopping medical care because of a lack of water and electricity.
Asked if he could speak to his colleagues in Al-Shifa, Hammad says he was able to talk to them on Sunday, adding:
Quote Message: They are fearing for their lives, they are under continuous bombardment, they cannot provide their patients with any care without electricity. They are seeing patients dying in front of them and they are helpless.”
He says the evacuation of babies or severely injured patients is a massive operation, and even if that’s achieved, there are no hospitals in Gaza other than Al-Shifa to provide that kind of intensive care for those in critical condition.
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