More about my shift!

The life of a doctor in Gaza, is not like the life of any doctor anywhere else!

About my shift yesterday. It was one of the most difficult days ever! But what made me survive it, that we were happy celebrating the birthday of Karaz, and she was so happy getting her gifts. I'm really thankful for everyone who sent her love and gifts.

More about my shift! I saw an elderly cancer patient, a little girl who has her face burned, and a mother having shrapnel penetrated her body, all were screaming and crying from the severity of their pains

I dealt with an injured young man, whom we were able to transfer with difficulty to another hospital for a CT scan and it turned out that there was a shrapnel penetrating to his spinal cord. Having severe pain and unable to move his right limb, made him pass stool involuntarily! He was lying on the ground because there were no beds, screaming in pain and saying:" | am a human being, I just want to go to the bathroom to clean myself, I wish the missile had killed me"!

I saw a girl crying and screaming in the hospital yard and saying my brother is still alive in the morgue, come and save him, I was trying to calm her down, but in reality I wanted to scream with her and I was only able to go quickly with her because I really hoped she was right that he was still alive!

I saw many orphaned children, vulnerable elderly patients, and I saw people without limbs and without families and friends, I saw pains that could not be relieved by medicine, I saw fear and anxiety in every letter and word and in every breath and movement, andI saw many brains outside skulls, I saw many hearts beating their last beats, and people breathing their last breaths. Two families slept in our triage tent, escaping the cold!

After midnight, a journalist asked me to contact his colleague, who had been under the rubble for hours, after their house was bombed, because the ambulance crews could not reach the area, due to the intensity of the bombing. There were dozens of injured people in the house, I asked about their conditions, some were stable, others were unstable, which after everything I lived during my day, made me feel terrible helplessness!