US EditionBreathless in Gaza: Health Crisis Deepens as Families Burn Plastic for Fuel
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Photo: Umm Mohammed Al-Masri, displaced from Beit Hanoun to the south of the Gaza Strip, works in a mud oven to bake bread and cook food for the displaced and thus support her family. The inhuman conditions suffered by the Gazans force them to burn plastic to be able to cook or overcome the cold. The result is an increase in respiratory diseases, which are aggravated by a very precarious health situation. Gazan doctors warn of an increase in res…
In the building of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, Dr. Jamal Abu Hilal, head of the Osteoporosis Department at the European Gaza Hospital, is sitting on the basis of a grey wall peeled out by shelling. Since the evacuation of the European Hospital about a year ago, Abu Hilal and his colleagues have been working here in circumstances he has never imagined. Starting from the blood room he describes [...]
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Breathless in Gaza: Health crisis deepens as families burn plastic for fuel
Doctors in Gaza are warning of a surge in respiratory illnesses as families – cut off from basic supplies – burn plastic and cardboard to cook and keep warm. They say the outbreak will worsen unless life-saving medicines, fuel and food are allowed into the devastated territory.
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