Doctors in Gaza treat a baby girl who survived an Israeli raid (Associated Press-Archive)
In light of the absence of electricity and the lack of fuel necessary to operate electrical generators, doctors in hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are resorting to using their mobile phones to provide the necessary lighting while treating the wounded who flock to hospitals as a result of the non-stop Israeli raids.
One of the scenes that summarize this difficult situation was the rescue of an infant girl who survived an Israeli raid that targeted her family’s home yesterday, Saturday. Video clips showed doctors at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City treating the infant in the complete absence of any lighting other than the light of a mobile phone.
After the baby arrived at the hospital, a doctor placed her on one of the hospital beds, while another doctor used his mobile phone and began examining the baby to provide the necessary treatment.
The baby arrived at the hospital after some residents found her in the street near her family's home in Gaza City after the house was subjected to an Israeli raid.
Anatolia Agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying that some residents of Gaza City found the child alive, covered in her blood, in a street near the Hamza Mosque in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City, after her family’s home was bombed.
At first glance, the residents who found her thought she had died, but they later realized that she was still alive and took her to Baptist Hospital, where doctors rushed to treat her with the help of a mobile phone.
Doctors in Gaza face great challenges in light of the siege and the Israeli war on the Strip, and they work with the simple capabilities available to save the lives of the large numbers of injured people who flock to hospitals around the clock due to the continuous raids and bombing. Doctors work long hours in light of power outages, fuel shortages, and shortages of medical equipment, medicines, water, and food.
The devastating Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the occupation army’s targeting of health facilities caused 32 hospitals in Gaza to be out of service out of 36, the total number of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. 53 health centers were also out of service, and the number of health centers that were targeted by the occupation army reached 155, according to the office. Government journalist in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Anadolu Agency