“We’re having a lot of [elderly] patients dying of chronic illnesses, those who should receive treatment abroad, and there’s nothing we can do here,” says Dr. Majed Jaber, an emergency room physician in Gaza.
With the lack of analgesics and other pain management options due to Israel’s increasing restrictions on medical supplies, humanitarian aid and food, he tells The Electronic Intifada Podcast, “we’re just trying to prolong their inevitable demise.”
Jaber talks about his involvement in re-opening parts of the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis and the impact that the lack of medications and basic equipment continues to have on his patients and the broader medical community in Gaza.
The Gaza government media office announced earlier this month that it was launching “an urgent humanitarian distress call to save two million displaced people in the Gaza Strip before it is too late, coinciding with the onset of winter and the deterioration of the displaced people’s tents.” ….more
