Gaza Runs Out Of Medical Supply: Surgery Without Morphine, A Kid Victim Of 60% Burns Doesn't Get Painkiller

Victims of Israeli Attacks in Gaza October 2023. (Wikimedia Commons/Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) in Contract with APAimages)

JAKARTA - The total blockade carried out by Israel not only causes the Gaza Strip to lack fuel, water and food, but also the supply of medical needs, when the region continues to be bombarded.

Humanitarian assistance institute officials said that humanitarian workers at Gaza Hospital could not use morphine or painkillers to get civilians due to running out of medical supply.

"What is very important is traumatic equipment, operating equipment," said Head of Medicins Sans Frontieres (without limits) Leo Cans in Jerusalem, launching CNN on October 23.

"The doctor performed surgery without proper morphine dosage. In terms of illness management, it did not happen. At present we have people who are operated without morphine. That has just happened to two children," he said.

"We have many children who are unfortunately among those who are injured. I discussed with one of our surgeons, after receiving a child aged 10 years ago. He suffered a 60 percent burns of his body surface and could not get painkillers," Creeted Cans.

"There is no justification at all to block these important drugs to treat the public," he said.

Previously, UN officials and experts last week said, the "very cruel" Israeli blockade of Gaza was a violation of international law and criminal.

Cans said the lack of fuel experienced by Gaza also had an impact on the function of the hospital and water supply.

"Fuel is very important for water factory to do desalination into water worth drinking. If you don't have fuel, you don't have quality water," he said, adding many Gazans now drinking water that is not processed, causing diarrhea outbreaks.

Cans hopes that indiscriminate bombings of Gaza can soon end up highlighting the number of children and women.

"Even war there are rules, and you cannot bomb civilians. We have too many children, too many women who come to the hospital. That is not acceptable," he concluded.