Gaza’s hospitals are beneath immense stress as sufferers and medical doctors grapple with the unprecedented Israeli order for 1.1 million individuals to go away Northern Gaza, all throughout an enormous bombardment. The size of carnage would put any well being system on this planet beneath stress, however the state of affairs is much more dire for Gaza’s hospitals, which have been disadvantaged for over a decade of primary provides, workers and upkeep resulting from years of Israeli blockade. Now with the electrical energy grid shut down and gas and water provides dwindling, hospitals are on the verge of complete collapse.
On this episode:
– Meinie Nicolai, Director Normal of Docs With out Borders
– Ghassan Abu Sittah, surgeon at Al Shifa hospital
– Belal Aldabbour, neurologist
– Mahmoud Shalabi, Medical Assist for Palestinians program supervisor in Gaza
Episode credit:
This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan, Miranda Lin, Sari el Khalili, and Sonia Bhagat, with our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of viewers growth and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s govt producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.