GAZA DOCTORS CALL ON COLLEAGUES AROUND THE WORLD FOR HELP

Thu 19 October 2023:

Palestinian doctors have called on colleagues from around the world to travel to Gaza to relieve the exhausted medics treating the wounded and dying in the besieged province.

The opening of the Rafah border crossing on Saturday could be an opportunity for medical missions to enter Gaza, according to the Al-Quds Foundation for Medical Schools in Palestine (FQMS), a British-based Palestinian medical charity.

In a message released through FQMS, Dr Suhaib Alhams, general surgeon at the Kuwaiti specialized hospital in Rafah, said there were too few medics in Gaza to handle the number of casualties from the constant Israeli bombing. He also said he hoped the presence of foreign national medics might discourage attacks. Alhams said:

We are still receiving scores of dead and injured and corpses with many missing. The barbaric bombing continues to this moment but we are steadfast and continue working. The health in Gaza collapses more and more. Three governmental hospitals have shut down. It’s catastrophic in every sense of the word.

Please encourage medical missions to Gaza – perhaps it’ll lessen the impact of the bombing. God reward you all. They say missions may come in on Saturday and I wish there would be foreign missions to help lessen the bombing and their embassies will look after them.

Alhams added in a follow-up WhatsApp message:

Very important, the medics are exhausted and expiring and are few in number.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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