- July 16, 2024

Gaza Strip - Recent

Healthcare workers in the Gaza Strip, facing a scarcity of proper medical supplies, are creating makeshift prosthetic limbs for amputees who have lost limbs in the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza which has led to a significant increase in amputations.

Like thousands of other Palestinian amputees, Omar Al-Haddad, who lost his foot in an Israeli airstrike, has struggled to find medical help with many of Gaza's hospitals out of service.

With proper medical supplies in short supply, Palestinian healthcare workers here are forced to create prosthetic limbs using scrap wood, sponge, and plastic.

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are grappling with a severe shortage of medical supplies, with doctors saying they are having to perform amputations that might previously have been avoided.

Shotlist:
Gaza Strip - Recent:
1. Various of physiotherapist Moataz Abu Dayyeh treating amputee Omar Al-Haddad;
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omar Al-Haddad, amputee:
"I have a problem with my leg bone, and it needs bone curettage surgery. Because of the conditions under which we live, there are no surgeries or any health care. I also need physiotherapy, which I have just received for the first time after nine months.";
3. Various of Dayyeh helping Al-Haddad put on prosthetic limb;
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Moataz Abu Dayyeh, physiotherapist:
"Every day we see a higher and higher number of injuries than before. Due to the increase in injuries, I tried to reach the largest possible number of injured people to provide them with physiotherapy services and carry out my professional mission.";
5. People walking.

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