A warning, some of the details in the following story are disturbing.
A Newfoundland physician who just spent the last month providing emergency aid in Gaza calls it “an immense moral injury” to not be able to provide the same standard of care that people are used to in this country.
Dr. Elise Thorburn (submitted)
Dr. Elise Thorburn witnessed first hand the level of destruction and devastation in the region.
When she went over she wasn’t allowed to take any medical supplies, not even a stethoscope, and had to make due with the limited medical inventory in Gaza.
UNICEF medical tent in Gaza City (submitted)
Thorburn says it was difficult to treat patients, knowing she couldn’t provide the level of care they would receive a many other countries.
“There’s no way to treat people’s immense pain. So they come in with their arm blown off, with open fractures in their legs where you can see the bone sticking out, or covered – their entire body is covered in burns. We can provide them, maybe, with Advil.”
“For the burn patients, we provided pieces of carboard boxes for their friends to fan them. This is what I’m talking about, there is nothing – everything has been destroyed.”
