Operating conditions in Gaza hospitals like World War I: MSF

The situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital is catastrophic, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has said, as the Israeli army continues its raid of the medical facility.

“We are outraged by what’s going on,” Leo Cans, MSF head of mission for Palestine, told Al Jazeera. “It’s the same scenario as al-Shifa Hospital repeating in other hospitals again and again.”

Cans said MSF doctors and health practitioners across Gaza were operating in conditions comparable to World War I, which took place over a century ago.

“We are operating on the floor. Children are arriving with very bad injuries, and [surgeons] have to do multiple operations but there are no more beds,” he said.

Hospitals have been forced to discharge patients they would not normally have due to the lack of space. Cans estimated 60 percent of the wounds get infected, becoming potentially life-threatening.

“This is totally inhumane, it’s totally unacceptable,” he said.

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