The first UK-funded field hospital has been set up in Gaza - but there are fears they are fighting a losing battle.
The first UK-funded field hospital has been set up in Gaza by aid organisation UK-Med to deliver emergency and outpatient care. It’s based near Rafah, where 1.5 million Palestinians are taking refuge from the continuedsince Israel began retaliation for Hamas killing 1,139 and taking 248 hostages in its 7 October terror attack on Israel.
For Faye Callaghan, an NHS midwife working at the new field hospital, it is the most immediate and obvious solution to put an end to the destruction she’s seen since arriving in Gaza on 20 March. ‘We arrived in Gaza as it got dark, via the land border with Egypt, which is a long, slow process because they’re strict on who can come in and what you can bring,’ she explains. ‘The first thing you see is that the country is pretty much destroyed, there’s a lot of people living in tents, milling around in the streets, selling things like tomatoes or beans from tiny stores because that’s all they have to try and make a living.
‘I’ve not seen anything quite as extreme as this in 30 years of doing this work,’ Wightwick says. ‘In terms of just the speed and scale of population movement, the lack of access to services. That means, for example, there’s one toilet between 3,000 or so people. If you’re sick or wounded in conflict, accessing healthcare is really difficult. Everything is a struggle, getting food, clean water, enough shelter. There is no education for kids.
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