The Gaza doctor prescribes the daily struggle after the collapse of the health regime

Health care in the Gaza Strip is itself a 18 -month victim of the war between Israel and Hamas. With doctors struggling to overcome, the British Broadcasting Corporation followed one of GP by turning in the Médecins Sans Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic.

By 07:30, Dr. Wissam Sukkar, a slight character in the pink veil, is in the destroyed streets of Gaza City.

“I was walking for 50 minutes to get to our clinic,” explains when the local BBC journalist who helped us recording her day meets her. With no fuel in Gaza, a few taxis are operated.

“With our limited resources, we are still trying to be here in northern Gaza during these difficult times,” Dr. Sukar added.

The United Nations World Health Organization (the World Health Organization) says only 21 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are currently working partially. Medical supplies work dangerously due to the ongoing blockade in Israel in Gaza.

GP refers to the remainder of its previous workplace, which is the Burns Clinic at MSF, was fire in the first weeks of the war, during the streets of the streets between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters.

Her team has now turned an office towards the west from Gaza City to a clinic – at 09:30, where Dr. Sukar wears her white robe, there are already about 150 people waiting abroad in a reception area.

“Most of our patients are displaced,” says Dr. Sukar. “They live in shelters, and they even live in tents in the streets.”

Since the ceasefire collapsed a month ago, thousands of Ghazan again left their homes and fled to this neighborhood, in search of safety.

With a little food and clean water, there is a rise in malnutrition and diseases – from bars to scabies. The elderly and young people are the most affected, and the first patients of today are children with viral infections.

“We receive a lot of children with upper respiratory infections and diarrhea. In shelters, there are many children in the same place and the virus can spread very quickly,” the doctor explains.

One of the young children has his face scattered with mosquito bites. Dr. Sukar manages some sedative cream. As the cooking gas is running out, families have benefited from the use of open fires to heat the food, and this also led to increased dangerous burns.

Within an hour, Dr. Sukar and three other doctors saw dozens of patients. But there are many who struggle to help.

“We have more and more challenges with the huge number of patients with less and less medical supply,” says Dr. Sukar.

“Also, we receive complex cases, and we do not know where these patients are referring because the health regime in Gaza has collapsed.”

There was a flow in patients with serious injuries who arrived at the clinic since last Sunday, when Israeli warplanes attacked the Higher Arab Hospital in Gaza City.

Israel accused Hamas of using the hospital building as a “command and control center”; Something denied the armed group.

Patients can no longer accept patients – which was the main medical site for trauma treatment in northern Gaza – for patients. The emergency room, laboratory, X -ray and pharmacy devices are destroyed.

“I started my treatment in Al -Shiva Hospital“Then I moved to Al -Athly and bombed them,” says Saeed Barakat, a older man with a broken thigh bone, who arrived at the MSF clinic on crutches.

He performed surgery after he was wounded by Israeli artillery fire on the shelter, where he was staying late last year. He has pins in his leg, and he is swollen.

“I have come here to get any treatment and follow -up,” says Mr. Balkans.

In the middle of the day, when Dr. Sukar checks from the small pharmacy in the clinic, she looks worried. Many shelves naked.

Israel closed all crossings to Gaza at the beginning of March, saying it was pressuring Hamas to release the remaining hostages they kept. Since then, no assistance has entered.

“For diabetes, we do not have insulin, and we do not have treatments for epilepsy, we do not have basic drugs like anti -cycle drugs,” says Dr. Sukar.

“It is the season of skin infections and we do not have creams or ointments for bacterial infections, and there are no medications to treat scabies and head lice.”

Doctors legalize the supplies that remain.

“We are doing our best to be enough for the next week,” Dr. Sokar summarizes, but we expect our stocks to be exhausted in two weeks or less. “

Dr. Sukar soon returned to her consultation room. Patient rush continues with many sick children. They have cough, fever and stomach disorders.

By 15:30, it is time to close the clinic today. The four doctors count here that they have seen nearly 390 patients.

After a long and tiring day, there is a long and tired walk to the house for Dr. Sukar.

While leaving the clinic, she makes her family contacts. Her ideas turn into caring for her children, who were displaced with nine times a year and a half last year.

“Like every Ghazan, I have a daily struggle to secure clean water and food for my children,” says Dr. Sukar. “We do not have electricity, so it’s really difficult to charge my mobile phone battery.”

“Most of all, it’s really difficult to have any hope,” you follow. “I feel that I live in an endless nightmare. When will this war end?”

At the present time, there is no answer, no comfort.