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A Palestinian girl who does not have a name and does not know the fate of her family is waiting on a bed inside the intermediate care section of the children’s nursery at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, east of the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
The 77-day-old baby was born prematurely in Al Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, as a result of the martyrdom of her mother, Hanadi Abu Amsha, after she was seriously injured in an Israeli bombing.
The doctors do not know the fate of the child’s family, as none of them came to check on her throughout her stay in the hospital, according to Dr. Warda Al-Awawda.
Back to life
Al-Awawda, who works in the neonatal intensive care department at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, says, “The baby girl was born on December 23, after the displaced mother was hit in the head in one of the schools in the Nuseirat camp, as a result of an Israeli bombing. She was subsequently transferred to Al-Awda Hospital and was martyred while she was pregnant.”
Al-Awawda adds that the medical teams performed a caesarean section for the pregnant mother immediately in the reception department to save the fetus’s life.
The baby girl was born at that time, and all vital signs had stopped, so the medical staff performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation at Al Awda Hospital, and the baby girl came back to life.
She explains that the child's need for more medical care, which the hospital currently lacks, required her to be transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
The infant girl was transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and was admitted to the intensive care unit. She was placed on respirators and her condition was very critical.
Al-Awawda revealed that the child was and is still suffering from a lack of oxygen as a result of the mother’s martyrdom and her birth after her oxygen was cut off in her mother’s womb.
No one came
The girl's condition improved two weeks after entering intensive care, which was a divine miracle, and she was then transferred to the intermediate care department.
Al-Awawda points out that she is now breathing normally without oxygen and is fully formula-fed and is being provided with appropriate care.
It turned out that the girl's father was present on the first day she was admitted to intensive care, but throughout this period no one asked about her, and no one came to visit her.
She expresses her deep sadness towards this orphan child who was deprived of a mother's affection and breastfeeding, and says, "We all feel as colleagues working within the department that this child is our child, and everyone is providing her with the necessary care."
Al-Awawda explains that the child's condition has improved and she is supposed to leave the hospital, but no one from her family came to visit her or check on her, because their fate is unknown.
It turned out that the workers in the department named her Somaya after one of their colleagues who was martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Bureij camp in the Central Governorate.
Source: Anadolu Agency