Kidney patients in Gaza need more than 13,000 cannulae, 13,000 blood collection tubes and 26,000 blood cannulas every month
The number of kidney dialysis patients at the Al-Aqsa Saints Focal Clinic in Gaza has multiplied like never before, and many patients currently have fewer treatment appointments from just 24 dialysis machines.
Inside the emergency clinic, dead bodies continue to appear, while injured individuals are still lying on the floor and patients are placed in clinical tents and on sleeping pads outside the building.
Here, large numbers of Palestinian exiles returned home and packed into holding regions and lobbies.
Due to the Israeli army's order to vacate, there are currently countless patients in the holy Al Aqsa who have been treated at medical clinics in the north of the blockaded area.
Dialysis is what happens for kidney victims.
There were 143 patients in the emergency clinic in need of dialysis before the latest Israeli hostilities began on October 7. There are roughly 300 patients there right now, which is more than double the amount that was there before. Among them are 11 young people who have only 24 dialysis machines in total.
Iyad Issa Abu Zaher, director general of the emergency clinic, said the space was full.
"We relied on the distribution of all assets and clinical supplies," he told Al Jazeera. "A kidney dialysis patient is currently undergoing treatment more than once a week for a short period of time, but used to go three times a week."
Before the dispute, Gaza's social services issued a warning that severe shortages of dialysis supplies and fuel threatened the existence of 1,100 kidney failure patients, 38 of whom were young people.
Emergency clinic Gaza Service of Wellbeing The head of the pharmacy division, Alaa Helles, expressed last month that emergency clinics in the region provide 13,000 dialysis sessions every month.
More than 13,000 catheters, 13,000 blood collection tubes and 26,000 blood cannulas are required each month, but with Israel and Egypt controlling regional line crossings, patients regularly stress over receiving assets they expected to receive long before the conflict . .
Israel has been forcing an attack on the Gaza Strip for a very long time, severely restricting some of the goods. The ban has become even more prohibitive since the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas swept across southern Israel on October 7. As for the level of help needed, two or three dozen relief trucks have been allowed through so far, "a small detail in a larger landscape." Around 450 trucks carrying supplies were constantly ahead of the conflict.
Limit
In line with the social service's statement on Tuesday regarding the remaining functioning clinics, Abu Zaher said that the medical care framework in the Gaza Strip has separated.
So far, 12 medical clinics and 32 social communities have been forced to stop working, the service said in a statement. "We also fear that more will stop because of Israel's focus on fuel and the absence of fuel," he added.
According to claims, the clinics have previously run out of numerous drugs and clinical supplies, so leaving the entrances of the last few medical clinics in the Gaza Strip open will not ensure that these offices can harm those who throng them.
According to Abu Zaher, without fuel, individuals who rely on the devices for their resilience, such as those in workrooms, basic viewpoints, baby hatcheries and various places, are at risk.
"Patients are being piled into external operating rooms because we need more beds," he said. Meanwhile, the others recuperating from their assignments moved into open-air tents—"kind of field medical clinics," he made sense.
In any case, Abu Zaher also emphasized that there is no confirmation that patients will recover after treatment in light of the hazard of significant diseases that have been welcomed by the stuffy climate and lack of clinical resources.
"A case of sickness is inevitable," he said. “After the conflict is concluded, there will be a compassionate disaster.
'Exhausted from this reality'
Manar Shreir, a resident of Gaza City's Zeitoun area, was undergoing kidney dialysis at the Al-Quds Clinic.
After the Israeli army arranged for 1.1 million Palestinians in the north to flee southward, she and her family cleared the city of escalating Israeli bombardment and went to Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, where her sister lives.
As indicated by the Palestinian Red Ribbon, the Israeli military additionally issued orders to purge the Al-Quds Emergency Clinic, stating that it would be determined. With regard to the Israeli military, the head of the clinic expressed that a limitless clearing would perhaps be plausible provided that Israel sends transports to move the 12,000 individuals - including patients - who sought shelter in Al-Quds towards the southern Gaza Strip and ensure that they have safe place to stay. The Israeli authority apparently hung up.
Be that as it may, even individuals who have come south, like Shreir, struggle for clinical reasoning.
"My sister's house [in Deir el-Balah] is near the Al Aqsa Saints Clinic, but I actually need to queue since early morning, I'll just wait [until my] turn," Shreir said as she sat down. on an emergency clinic bed with a red cover around his legs.
Since 2015, Shreir has been on dialysis and visits a medical clinic three times a week for four-hour appointments. Currently, she considers herself lucky if she can complete up to 2.5 long periods of dialysis twice a week.
"It makes a huge difference," she said. "The meeting is barely enough to get the poisons and build-up out of my blood. I need to watch what I eat and drink and hardly ever drool because I'd rather not have wind or enlargement."
Israeli airstrikes hit the road lined by Shreira as she returned to her sister's house after her last treatment. "It's scary," she said. "In any case, when you're in the emergency clinic, you're scared. Before, the windows were broken, you're surrounded by obliteration, also a terrible mass of bombs. It's no better inside, with groups of dead individuals piled on top of each other." , blood on the floor and individuals missing pendants.
"We are exhausted from this reality. Enough guilt, enough conflict."
'not enough'
According to Hajj Salah al-Noise Ahmed Suleiman Abu Iyadeh, 61, an exile from Gaza City undergoing dialysis at Al Aksa Saints Medical Clinic, patients would experience extreme fatigue and swelling if they did not receive normal care.
"Dialysis that lasts more than two hours more often than once a week is not enough," he said.
"These are poisons in the body that cannot be allowed to remain. We are managing at the moment, no matter how this war continues, there will be severe problems due to the limits and monstrous strain the medical clinic is under."
Israeli attacks have killed somewhere around 6,546 Palestinians, including 2,704 youths, and injured 17,439 others, according to figures provided Wednesday by the Hamas-run Gaza Welfare Service.
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