Dr. Victoria Rose, a senior plastic surgeon from London, has returned from a harrowing 21-day mission in Gaza where she volunteered with a British charity. In a troubling report from her time at Nasser Hospital, Rose shared devastating accounts of the medical crises stemming from persistent violence and food shortages.
On June 1, just as her stint was concluding, news broke of a mass shooting at a food distribution point that propelled her to the emergency room. Upon arrival, she was met with the grim reality of the hospital, the last functioning facility in southern Gaza. “We had ambulances bringing in dead bodies, and donkey-drawn carts were also delivering the deceased,” she stated, recalling how within just two hours, the hospital received approximately 20 bodies and over a hundred wounded individuals.
Dr. Rose noted a sharp escalation in the severity of injuries comparing her recent visit to previous ones during the conflict. "Patients were coming in with traumatic injuries that were far worse than I had seen before—many had limbs missing from blasts rather than simple shrapnel wounds," she explained. The influx of injured children left her particularly shaken as young victims arrived with devastating injuries, highlighting the ongoing crisis's toll on the most vulnerable.
Her accounts detail an overwhelmed healthcare system grappling with a relentless wave of traumatic cases and a dire lack of resources to cope, painting a dire picture of the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
On June 1, just as her stint was concluding, news broke of a mass shooting at a food distribution point that propelled her to the emergency room. Upon arrival, she was met with the grim reality of the hospital, the last functioning facility in southern Gaza. “We had ambulances bringing in dead bodies, and donkey-drawn carts were also delivering the deceased,” she stated, recalling how within just two hours, the hospital received approximately 20 bodies and over a hundred wounded individuals.
Dr. Rose noted a sharp escalation in the severity of injuries comparing her recent visit to previous ones during the conflict. "Patients were coming in with traumatic injuries that were far worse than I had seen before—many had limbs missing from blasts rather than simple shrapnel wounds," she explained. The influx of injured children left her particularly shaken as young victims arrived with devastating injuries, highlighting the ongoing crisis's toll on the most vulnerable.
Her accounts detail an overwhelmed healthcare system grappling with a relentless wave of traumatic cases and a dire lack of resources to cope, painting a dire picture of the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
