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‘Hospitals are now public cemeteries’: Gaza hospitals overwhelmed, doctor says
11 October 2023 13:30 BST
The manager of the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza told Al Jazeera Arabic that hospitals in the besieged enclave are completely overwhelmed.
“I have been working for years and I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. People have been here for five days and we can’t cope with the numbers,” he said.
“Every minute we are losing people and we are seeing wounded patients and are unable to help them… the hospitals can’t be called hospitals any more, they have been transformed to public cemeteries,” he added.
With Gaza’s only power plant now out of service, doctors have raised concerns over the humanitarian impact this could have, from the spread of disease to doctors being unable to treat patients.