The Gaza hospitals “are totally overwhelmed. The beds are not enough. There are not enough staff to treat them. The patients are on the floor,” British pediatric nurse volunteer Hannah Grace Pan tells Al Jazeera.
She said many patients and small children are being treated as “not receiving painless treatment at all because they have not suffered from extremely painful, explosive injuries or burns.”
Grace Pan used the example of a three-year-old child brought to hospital last week. He is the only survivor after his entire family was killed in an air attack. However, there were no burn experts to treat him, and his wounds take much longer to heal, due to insufficient liquids and no food.
One of the most shocking cases she witnessed was hitting a 30-week pregnant woman in a tent with a rap shotgun from an Israeli attack that stabbed her chest and slashed through her abdomen.
When medical staff removed the baby from their abdomen, they discovered it was killed by flying metal, Grace Pan said.
