Yesterday I posted about the dire situation facing doctors in Gaza after 5 months of relentless attacks by one of the world's best-equipped military forces. I think I want to point to more reports by doctors and nurses from Gaza.

This is a letter from Dr Mohammed Qandil published in the BMJ's Emergency Medicine Journal in February. Dr Qandil is a consultant and a member of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Some striking quotes:

Most injuries we are seeing come as a result of being crushed under the rubble of collapsed buildings following bombardment and the vast majority of those injured are women and children. Often this happens when the patients are sleeping in their homes and subsequently, we see severe head, torso and limb injuries.

There have been outbreaks of gastroenteritis and respiratory infections amongst a population, according to official reports, who are surviving on having food every 2 days, with no access to clean water, no electricity, no fuel and poor sanitation. Even within the hospital there is one bathroom for 500 patients. The humanitarian situation is dire and this compounds an already fragile community who are facing around-the-clock bombardment.

We are seeing devastating injuries, many of which we may have read about in textbooks and expected to see once or twice in a career and yet we are facing them dozens of times over.

Read it in full.

🍉🍉🍉 Ceasefire NOW!

This post is part of a challenge to write 150 blog posts of 150 words each this year. This is post 24 out of 150.