British doctor: Children in Gaza die due to lack of basic medical facilities

GAZA, May 21 (YPA) – A British surgeon working in the Gaza Strip has said that children are dying from easily treatable illnesses due to the lack of medical aid reaching the Strip.

Dr. Victoria Rose, a volunteer at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, told Channel 4 News on Monday: “We are losing children everywhere. These are preventable deaths.”

“I lost a four-year-old child two nights ago to severe sepsis. This would not have happened in the UK because I would have had the facilities to do basic tests like a complete blood count and kidney function tests. She added. I don’t have any of those tests. Our blood bank is completely destroyed.”

“These are all treatable illnesses and we need help,” Rose emphasized. “Regardless of what’s happening politically in the Strip, as you know, this is a humanitarian issue, and we have to provide these people with food and medical assistance.”

Earlier in the day, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced that the European Hospital in southern Gaza and the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza were out of service after being repeatedly bombed recently.

On Sunday, the Gaza-based Ministry of Health declared that all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip were out of service, adding that the occupation’s intensified siege of the Indonesian Hospital and its surroundings, with heavy artillery, and the prevention of access for patients, medical staff, and supplies, has put the Indonesian Hospital out of service.

The Ministry concluded: “After the destruction of Beit Hanoun Hospital and Kamal Adwan Hospital, and the subsequent decommissioning of the Indonesian Hospital, all public hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip Governorate are now out of service.”

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