The amazing guts of some people – Peter
The memories of “starving children” with horrific injuries still haunt emergency doctor Mohammed Mustafa.
Dr Mustafa, known as Dr Mo, recently returned from his second volunteer medical mission to Gaza and the 35-year-old is considering a third.
He said the only way to describe the situation inside Gaza was “apocalyptic”.
“You see dogs eating people in the streets, dead bodies in the streets, [dogs] pulling blown up arms out of rubble, or a leg and running away with it,” he told the ABC.
“There’s a saying here, ‘The only things that are not hungry in Gaza are the dogs’, because they have a lot of people to feed on.”
Born to a Palestinian refugee family, Dr Mo has had time to reflect on his experience.
Arriving just as a fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel collapsed in March this year, Dr Mo spent three weeks volunteering in north Gaza’s al-Ahli Hospital.
He said Al-Ahil Hospital was one of the last fully functional hospitals standing in Gaza but was severely lacking in medical supplies, including proper sanitisation and adequate anaesthesia.
Read More…………………….
