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“Our caregivers fear for their lives”: in Gaza, these mobile teams still on the ground

2024-01-31T10:49:46.271Z

Highlights: The work of healthcare workers in the Gaza Strip has changed significantly since the start of the war. They now have to deal with shortages of medical equipment, medicines and daily bombings. The problem is that the injured and sick do not always manage to get to hospitals or health centers in the area. Beyond emergencies, it has become almost unthinkable to travel for small and major everyday ailments. These infections that break out in shelters, these chronic illnesses that the war has not erased, are still at work.


Faced with the difficulties that the Gazan population encounters in getting around, teams of caregivers go to shelters, sometimes to the p


“It’s our job, we continue to do it.”

The response is almost destabilizing, as it reveals fatalism.

However, the work of healthcare workers in the Gaza Strip has changed significantly since the start of the war, launched by Israel in response to the unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7.

They now have to deal with shortages of medical equipment, medicines and daily bombings.

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But the teams of Doctor Ayed Yafgi, president of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), are still at work.

The problem is that the injured and sick do not always manage to get to hospitals or health centers in the area.

Beyond emergencies, it has become almost unthinkable to travel for small and major everyday ailments.

These infections that break out in shelters, these chronic illnesses that the war has not erased.

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Source: leparis

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