Gaza zone. A day in the doctor's life

What does a doctor's work look like in the Gaza Strip? When she comes to work, more than a hundred patients are waiting for her. She helps them, although they lack medicine, and later “she fights for clean water and food for her children.” – I feel that I live in a nightmare that does not end – admitted Dr. Wissam Sukkar, who was accompanied by a BBC journalist.

Doctors help victims of the Gaza Zone. BBC journalist accompanied one of the doctors during her standard work day at the clinic of doctors without borders. Dr Wissam Sukkar goes to work on foot 50 minutes, because there is no fuel in the area. At 9.30 she appeared in a clinic in the city of Gaza, and about 150 patients were waiting for her in the tent reception.

With a small amount of food and clean water, malnutrition and diseases increase – from stomach viruses to scabies. – We accept many children suffering from upper respiratory tract infections and diarrhea. There are many children in the shelters, the virus spreads very quickly – described Dr. Sukkar.

There is a shortage of drugs. “The system broke down”

She also noted that there are more and more patients, especially after Sunday Israeli attack on the al-Ahli hospitaland doctors do not have medical means to help them. “We don't know where to manage complex cases, because the healthcare system in gas broke down,” she admitted.

At the beginning of March Israel He suspended the delivery of all humanitarian aid and goods to the Gaza Strip. The BBC said that when Dr. Sukkar checked a small pharmacy in the clinic, she looked worried. Many shelves were empty. – In the case of diabetes, we do not have insulin, we do not have basic drugs, even antipyretic – said Dr. Sukkar.

– It is a season of skin infection, and we have no creams or ointments for bacterial infections, we do not have drugs for scabies and head lice. We expect our reserves to be exhausted in about two weeks – the doctor worried.

At 15.30 the clinic closes. In one day, four doctors took almost 390 patients.

“I fight for clean water and food every day”

Dr Sukkar after leaving work called her family. In an interview with the BBC, she admitted that for a year and a half she was resettled with her family nine times. “Like every inhabitant of Gaza, I fight for clean water and food every day for my children,” she said.

– It's really hard to hope. I feel that I live in a nightmare that does not end – said the doctor.