Gaza _ Palestine News Network
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said that around 1,000 Palestinians who had been hit by the occupation army along the security fence around the Gaza Strip during the confrontations in recent months could cause them permanent disabilities, describing the health situation in the sector as a "slow emergency health condition."
The international organization providing health care to thousands of Palestinians since the outbreak of confrontations in March March, said the majority of the 3117 wounded, treated by Doctors Without Borders between 30 March March and 31 October October, were among the total reported by the ministry Palestinian health that they were hit by live bullets of 5866 wounded – injured in the leg area, as a result of which 50% suffered from open fractures, while many others suffered severe damage in soft tissues.
She pointed out that these injuries are critical and dangerous and do not heal quickly, and the seriousness of them and the lack of adequate treatment in the paralyzed health system in Gaza to the high risk of inflammation, especially among those with open fractures and the organization confirmed that Gaza currently lacks the possibility of diagnosing bone infections, but No limits--and through her experience--she predicts that about 25 percent of the fractures have been infected, with the probability that the actual number is much higher, which means that, of the 3,000 people with open fractures, more than 1,000 Gazans suffer from these infections.
It estimated that at least 60 per cent of the total number of injured persons treated by all health-care providers in Gaza, with 3520 injured, would require more surgeries, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and that a large proportion of those injured would require some type of corrective surgery For their injuries to heal well, untreated infections will prevent this.
She stressed that this burden exceeded the capacity of the health system in Gaza in its current situation and the impact of the 10 years of siege that it had left behind, noting that the large number of such injuries not only affected the injured, but also strained the ability to provide health care in Gaza.
The organization warned that if these wounds are not treated immediately, they will result in a physical disability that accompanies many people throughout their lives, and if the inflammation is not treated, the result may be amputation or even death.
