SPECIAL: THE FRONTLINES OF GAZA MEDICINE
Dr. Yasser Khan is back in Canada with stories of horror and humanity.
Recently I posted a letter from a young Canadian eye-specialist doctor in Gaza on a medical mission. It described injuries and medical outcomes beyond gruesome, including people who suffered multiple amputations and eye removals due to the bombings. Many are pulled from the rubble with catastrophic crush damage. Explosions send shrapnel flying into unprotected eyeballs that can’t be saved.
Dr. Khan explains the terrible living and sanitary conditions but also notes the spirit of the people in Gaza who are enduring the unendurable. So far, 200 hundred medical workers have been killed, including doctors and paramedics. Some of them have foreign passports and could leave but they stay to care for the endless stream of casualties. History will write textbooks about the heroism of Gaza doctors doing as much as the can, with very little, while living under the very real threat of death.
It is extreme battlefield medicine being practiced on a civilian population.
The audio version of the show ran this weekend. Here is the video with some photographs. I didn’t use some that were too graphic — and a few of these are upsetting but worth looking at and learning from.
Thank you Dr. Khan!
Stay critical.
And remember, if they are selling a war — you are being lied to.
I’m having a hard time just moving along, day to day, knowing this is what is taking place. The fact my govt and many across the globe are tolerating or even enabling this behaviour. After the Covid experience in Canada with Trudy at the helm I guess it shouldn’t surprise me.
I will never understand why or how humans can do this to one another :'( !!!!