British doctor exposes how Israel’s Gaza blockade is turning medicine shortages deadly

Dr Graeme Groom, a British orthopaedic surgeon who has volunteered in hospitals across Gaza more than 40 times, says a problem with shortages of medicine in the war-torn enclave is that it sounds “almost benign”. “We have colleagues who are in Gaza every month, and last night, a colleague sent an urgent request for an antifungal drug called amphotericin,” he told Al Jazeera on the sidelines of the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar. “She wanted this for an 18-year-old girl who had a very rare fungal infection, a mucormycosis, as a consequence of diabetes, multiple comorbidities, poorly treated because of the shortages. And her very last message was, “This is an emergency. The fungus is eating her face,” Groom said. “So when we talk about the shortages and we talk about the lists that are zero stock, both of medicine and surgical equipment, it doesn’t sound quite as dramatic, but the individual impact is absolutely huge,” he concluded. Subscribe to our channel: bit.ly
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