"The consultant plastic surgeon recently took leave from her day job at St Thomas' Hospital in London to work voluntarily in Gaza, helping victims of its war with Israel. "Appalling" levels of malnutrition and starvation had set in by the time she visited in May, and the number of casualties rapidly increased, she tells the BBC. "The mass casualties just didn't stop. It was really shocking.""
"At first, Miss Rose and her colleagues were mainly treating blast injuries - a "huge number" of severe burns as well as shrapnel injuries. But towards the end of her stay, they became "totally absorbed with gunshot injuries," she said. "That's we really all we saw." It's work she says is difficult, but she says that when she is in Gaza, she has no time to think about the level of suffering she sees."
Dr Victoria Rose, a consultant plastic surgeon from St Thomas' Hospital in London, took leave to volunteer with IDEALS in Gaza. She was deployed to Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza and worked in ground-floor theatres during a 28-day stay, performing plastic surgery around the clock. Initial caseloads were blast injuries, including a huge number of severe burns and shrapnel wounds; later caseloads became dominated by gunshot injuries. Appalling levels of malnutrition and starvation were present by May. The team faced nonstop mass casualties, limited food and supplies, and long working hours, surviving largely on energy bars while trying to make a measurable difference.
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