Gaza Medical Crisis: After the cessation of aid from America and EU countries, hospitals in Gaza have literally run out of medicine and supplies. Patients are dying on a daily basis from easily treatable conditions due to lack of supplies, and the hospital medicine stock is often completely gone. Cancer patients are falling out of remission due to lack of chemotherapy treatments. Dialysis patients are running on a limited schedule in the hospitals that have enough supplies to treat them at all. The neonatal ward is full of infants with severe skin infections because doctors do not even have soap and paper towels, much less sterile linens, rubber gloves and other essential antibacterial equipment. The mental hospitals are running extremely low on medication and fear utter chaos when those supplies completely run out. While taking these photographs I listened to people scream and beg doctors for help. I watched an elderly cancer patient slip into a coma and a newborn struggle to breathe through infected lungs. I listened to the stories of doctors and administrators who used up the last of their savings purchasing medicine from private pharmacies to keep their patients alive. As western nations pledge aid and discuss the terms of the sanctions, people are dying painful, unnecessary deaths. These are a few of those people:
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