Amputations soar but prostheses and painkillers lacking in besieged Gaza

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The war and Israel’s blockade have caused a shortage of medicines and destroyed much of Gaza’s medical capacity.As a result, amputations have become a key way of handling injuries that in other circumstances might have been treated differently, causing their number to soar further. “Every day, there are attacks that result in amputations of legs or arms for children, adults, and women.”

The situation at his hospital is particularly dire because northern Gaza is harder to access, making shortages there graver while most hospitals are “going out of service due to direct targeting by the Israeli army”, he said.

 

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