A wounded Palestinian woman from the Baraka family is surrounded by her children upon their arrival at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip following Israeli air strikes that hit their building on November 13, 2023. Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP
Orthopaedic surgeon Fadel Naim, based in the Gaza Strip, says patients with injuries “up to the moderate level” are having to undergo surgery without anaesthesia because of a lack of medical supplies.
“[It’s] to preserve the remaining supply of anesthesia, which is on the verge of depletion at any moment, for major and critical surgeries,” he said on X.
“The pain experienced by the patients during the surgical interventions without anesthesia is beyond what humanity on this Earth can endure.”
