"Like thousands of other sick and wounded Palestinians, I am slowly dying, trapped between a devastated health system and a heavily restricted border. As I write these lines, I am receiving treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for kidney disease. Actually, I don't know whether what I am receiving can actually be termed treatment or if it is only an attempt to postpone the inevitable."
"My doctor informed me today, after new tests, that my condition has worsened and I urgently need to be evacuated from Gaza. He will do a referral for me so I can be put on the list of the 22,000 Palestinians who are languishing in pain while waiting to leave so they can get urgently needed medical care abroad. My body, like this hospital I am in, is functioning at the bare minimum."
A person with kidney disease is receiving minimal care at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City amid acute shortages of medicine and equipment. Doctors often make treatment decisions based on availability rather than medical necessity, leaving needed medicines and tests unavailable. New tests showed the condition has worsened and an urgent evacuation referral was made to join around 22,000 Palestinians waiting for medical transfer abroad. The patient's body and the hospital are functioning at the bare minimum. Before the war some treatments were accessible in the West Bank, but in the past two years adequate care became impossible as hospitals were destroyed and staff killed or displaced.
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