The Gaza doctor describes the daily struggle after the collapse of the health system

In the Gaza strip, health, the war between Israel and Hamas is a loss of 18 months of war. With doctors who struggled to cope with the call, BBC followed a GP in turns in a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic.

A little figure with a pink hijab, Dr. Wissam sukkar, chooses the way to the devastated streets of the city of Gaza.

“I walked for about 50 minutes to reach our clinic,” he explains when he was familiar with a local BBC journalist who helped us join us. There are almost no fuel without fuel in Gaza, several taxis are working.

“We are still trying to be here in Gaza through these difficult days with our limited resources,” said Dr. Sukkar.

The UN World Health Organization (Kim) says only 21 of Gaza’s hospitals are partially functional. Medical supplies work very little due to the ongoing siege of Israeli Gaza.

GP, a former job, a clinic that is a clinic, which is a clinic in the street battles between Israeli soldiers and Hamas warriors, which is under fire in the first weeks of the war.

His team has now turned to a clinic in the west of Gaza and has become 09:30, as Dr. Sukkar was deposited in a white robe, 150 out of 150 out of 150 people adopted in the tent.

“Most of our patients are IDPs,” says Dr. Sukkar. “They live in shelters and even live in tents on the streets.”

Since a ceasefire collapsed a month ago, thousands of pots left their homes again and fled to this neighborhood that wanted security.

Nutrition and diseases with small food and clean water – there is an increase until itching from gastric mistakes. The oldest and young man are the worst and the first patients of the day are babies with viral infections.

“We get a lot of children suffering from the upper respiratory tract and diarrhea. There are many children in shelters and a virus can be spread very quickly,” the doctor explains.

One toddler pulled his face with mosquito bites and Dr. Sukar manages a slight soothing cream. Families have taken to use open fires to warm the meals, because the meals are exhausted, and this caused serious burns.

During an hour, Dr. Sukkar and the other three doctors saw dozens of patients. But there are many of those who struggle to help.

“We have more problems with a large number of patients with less and less medical equipment,” said Dr. Sukkar said.

“We also receive complex situations and do not know where to refer to these patients because the health system in Gaza collapsed.”

There was a flock in serious injured patients who came to the clinic last Sunday Israeli fighter jets attacked Al-Ahlan Arab Hospital in Gaza.

Israel accused Hamas from a hospital building as a “command and control center”; An armed group rejected something.

Al-Ahli – was the main medical site for the treatment of trauma in Northern Gaza – no longer accepts patients. Who says the ambulance room, laboratory, ray cars and pharmacies will be destroyed.

“I started my treatment Al-Scala HospitalThen I moved and bombed the al-Aman, “he said.

He operated on the shelter that lasted last year after the injuring the Israeli artillery fire. There are pins in his leg and are swollen.

“I came here for any treatment and I came to chase,” said Mr. Barcat, as he had changed his clothes and brings new painkillers.

In the afternoon, Dr. Sukkar seems to be worried when checked in a small pharmacy in the clinic. Most of the shelves are naked.

Israel has closed all the passages to Gaza in early March, and put pressure on the rest of the hostages caught by Hama. No help has been entered since then.

“We do not have insulin for diabetes, we have no treatment for epilepsy, we do not have basic drugs like anti-heating drugs,” Sukkar says.

“It is a season for skin infection and does not have a cream or ointment for bacterial infections, itching and headlines are not medications for treatment.”

Doctors follow the remaining supply.

“We do our best that will be enough for next week,” Dr. Sukkar, “our share is working in two weeks or less.”

Soon Dr. Sukkar returned in the advice room. The patients are in a hurry more and more sick children. They have coughs, fever and stomach.

Time to close the clinic for the day, until 15:30. The four doctors here are calculating about 390 patients.

After a long, tiring day, there is a house, tedious walking house for Dr. Sukkar.

As he left the clinic, his family’s phone. The thoughts were expelled in the last year and half, and returned to their children.

“As every Gazan, I have a daily struggle to provide clean water for my children,” said Dr. Sukkar. “We do not have electricity, so it’s really hard to fill my mobile phone battery.”

“It’s really hard to be the hope of any hope,” he said. “I feel I live in a nightmare. When will this war end?”

There is no response yet and there is no respite.