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Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the ‘nightmare’ of Gaza’s hospitals (apnews.com)

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The state of Gaza's hospitals: Surgeries without anesthesia and with only mobile phones for light. Vinegar from the corner store as disinfectant. 5,000 patients in a hospital built for 700, some sleeping on the floor. No power, no clean water, little fuel.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 48 points 1 year ago

A tragedy

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago

Vinegar as disinfectant and surgeries without anaesthesia is a whole other horror. It hurts trying to imagine what that's like, for the patients and the medical staff that are helping

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org

This whole thing breaks my heart, but I've donated to doctors without borders. It's not much, but it's something.

If you're crazy crypto privacy nut: https://thegivingblock.com/donate/doctors-without-borders-u-s-a-inc/

They don't accept monero, but easy enough to use a exchange. Because it's a donation, there's 180 day transaction limit, so more than enough time for any exchange to just work

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing, I've been meaning to check which orgs would be good to donate to

[-] oroboros@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Genocide

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[-] autotldr 15 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The only thing worse than the screams of a patient undergoing surgery without enough anesthesia are the terror-stricken faces of those awaiting their turn, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon says.

If more aid doesn’t come in, I fear we’ll get to the point where going to a hospital will do more harm than good,” Mehdat Abbas, an official in the Hamas-run Health Ministry, said.

When Israel cut fuel to the territory’s sole power plant two weeks ago, Gaza’s rumbling generators kicked in to keep life-support equipment running in hospitals.

At Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis this week, nurses and surgical assistants held their iPhones over the operating table, guiding the surgeons with the flashlights as they snipped.

At Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest, where Abed also worked this week, the intensive care unit runs on generators but most other wards are without power.

The scenes — infants arriving alone to intensive care because no one else in their family survived, patients awake and grimacing in pain during surgeries — have traumatized Abed into numbness.

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[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Horrific. The perpetrators should be held to the same account.

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