Dr. Khalid Abu Habel has a 75-year-old patient with Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Two of the most important medicines that she needs are completely unavailable.
“At the same time, malnutrition and infections are taking their toll on her health,” Abu Habel said.
“People with chronic diseases are suffering more than anyone in this war,” he added.
According to Abu Habel, there is an acute risk his patient and others will die because of the situation.
He points to how a newborn baby died recently at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, where Abu Habel works.
If the hospital was better resourced and not working under such enormous strain, it should have been possible to save the baby…..more
