GAZA IS SUFFERING A MALNUTRITION EPIDEMIC!
May 15, 2024Listen up!
British surgeon Nick Maynard from Oxford shares the heartbreaking reality he witnessed in Gaza.
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Nick Maynard: I’m a surgeon. I had two young female patients. Tala, who was 16, Lama who was 18, both of whom had survivable injuries, both of whom died last week as a direct result of malnutrition. I’ve just returned from Gaza for my second trip there since October the seventh. I came out of Rafah, one of the last people to leave on Monday. What I saw over the last two weeks, the first thing I’d like to highlight really is the direct targeting of healthcare workers. We know about this. We know that the hundreds that have been killed and also hundreds that have been abducted. I met two young healthcare workers who I knew and spent a considerable time with them last week. One young doctor, one young nurse, both of whom had been abducted, one of them kept in captivity for 45 days, the other one for 60 days, giving me very graphic and stark descriptions of their daily torture at the hands of the Israeli Defense Force. And we, of course, we know there are many, many other examples like this, but hearing it from those individuals themselves was extremely harrowing. And I think there will be many other stories like that. Over Christmas and New Year, I spent the whole two weeks operating all the time on major explosive injuries to the abdomen and to the chest and it was really nonstop. But the very strong narrative of the patients I was treating over the last two weeks with those with terrible infective complications as a direct result of malnutrition, and this was very stark indeed. And I operated on many patients in the last two weeks who had awful complications from their abdominal surgery related to inadequate nutrition, and particularly those with abdominal wall breaking down. So literally their intestines end up hanging outside and the intestinal repairs that are being carried out to deal with the damage to the bowels leaking so their bowels contents leaking out from different parts of the abdomen, covering their bodies, covering their beds. The lack of resources to deal with these inadequate numbers of colostomy bags, wound management devices and nutritional support. And they get this vicious cycle of malnutrition, infection wounds breaking down, more infection, more malnutrition. So it’s devastating and we will see far more of that over coming months.
