US surgeon in Gaza: Nothing prepared me for scale of injuries

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CAIRO, May 1 — A US vascular surgeon who left Gaza after a stint as a volunteer said today nothing had prepared him for the scale of injuries he had faced there. Dozens of...

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“Vascular surgery is really a disease for older patients and I would say I had never operated on anybody less than 16, and that was the majority of patients that we did this time around,” Shariq Sayeed, from Atlanta, Georgia, told Reuters in Cairo. Around 70 percent of the surgeries he performed were on injuries caused by shrapnel, the rest mostly from blast injuries and collapsing buildings.Ismail Mehr, an anaesthesiologist from New York State, who led the Gaza mission, said the volunteer medics were “speechless at what we saw” when they arrived in April in southern Gaza.

 

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