Elidalis Burgos, a American critical care nurse as a volunteer in Gaza, told NBC News that he had witnessed “a whole population” that suffered from starvation Due to the Israeli block.
“The signs are evident … not only in patients in the ICU,” he said, “but also the health workers themselves” who showed severe malnutrition, temporary wear, muscle waste and fragility.
“There are simply no food,” said Burgos, who works at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis and offers himself as a volunteer with the medical glia of the NGO. “There is simply nothing to [it] It has not entered for months. ”
Among the last victims was Abdulrahman Al-Ghalban, a 17-year-old who had suffered cerebral palsy from birth and depended on specialized nutritional milk, specific foods and constant medical care, said Dr. Ahmad al-Farra, pediatric specialist at the Nasser hospital.
“He needed a constant special nutrition, but we had nothing,” said his mother, Marwa al-Ghalban, to NBC News. “We tried to feed him with what we could find at home, but in his last days, he could not eat at all.”
