Associated Press: The difficulties are exacerbated by mountains on patients in Gaza – the seventh day

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The American Associated Press News Agency monitored the accumulation of difficulties on Palestinian patients in the stricken Gaza Strip, especially in light of the repeated raids of Israel for various hospitals inside Gaza on the pretext that Hamas is using them for military purposes, despite the denial of hospital employees of these allegations and their assertion that the Israeli raids destroyed the health care system in the entire region.

The agency highlighted – in the context of a field report prepared by its correspondents inside the Strip – the struggle of dialysis patients in order to obtain treatment sessions in the besieged Gaza, while officials confirmed the death of hundreds of them due to the bombing .. And the story of a Ghazawi citizen called Muhammad Attia is 54 years old while swinging, twice a week, on his wheelchair in the torn Gaza roads, to be able to reach the device Keep it alive.

The agency stated that Attia cuts his journey from a temporary tent in the western Gaza to Al -Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip until he receives a dialysis session to treat him from the kidney failure that was diagnosed about 15 years ago .. But the treatment, limited due to the destruction of war and the deficiency of supplies, is not enough to completely disinfect his blood .. And comment on that, Attie described his struggle to obtain treatment as a “miserable attempt to return from death.”

Associated Press said that there are others who suffer from the same suffering of Attia, but they do not return from death as many of them quietly leave, without explosion or bombing, until the losses worsened and the death toll from patients increased strikingly; Where the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that more than 400 patients represent about 40% of all cases of dialysis in the region, who died during the 18 -month conflict due to the lack of appropriate treatment.

These numbers include 11 patients who have died since the beginning of last March, when Israel has deprived two million Palestinians of all imports, including food, medical supplies and fuel .. Israeli officials said that the aim of this is to pressure Hamas to launch more hostages after Israel ended the ceasefire.

Attia confirms that he needs at least three dialysis sessions per week, each session of it is not less than four hours .. Now, it takes two or three hours at most .. The Israeli siege, and the numerous evacuation orders imposed on most parts of the sector, according to the American Agency in its report, led to the difficulty of Attia and thousands of other patients, on regular health care.

Attia has been displaced at least six times since his escape from his home near the town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza in the first weeks of the war .. He initially stayed in Rafah in the south, then in the city of Deir Al -Balah in the center of the country .. As the last ceasefire entered into force last January, he moved again to another school west of Gaza City.

Until recently, Attia walked to the hospital for dialysis, but he stressed that the limited treatment and the high prices of mineral water that he must drink, left him on a wheelchair .. His family transmits him on his wheelchair across Gaza, which is difficult for many to remember as a large part of it was destroyed because of the Israeli aggression .. Attia adds in his speech: “There are no transportation, the streets are destructive, life is difficult He cost, “he said that he is now suffering from hallucinations due to the high levels of toxins in his blood.

For its part, the World Health Organization said earlier this year that Azza had 182 dialysis machine before the war and now it has only 102 .. She emphasized in a statement: “This deficiency in equipment is exacerbated due to the lack of stock of kidney medicines.”

In Al -Shifa Hospital, the head of the kidney and dialysis department, Dr. Ghazi Elizigi, said that at least 417 patients suffer from Chloe’s failure who died in Gaza during the war due to the fading treatment .. This is among the 1100 patients whose suffering was exacerbated when the war began.

And “Associated Press” continued that hundreds of dialysis patients throughout Gaza are forced, such as Attia, to accept the number of less and shorter sessions every week .. “This matter leads to complications such as increasing toxins and fluid accumulation in the blood, and may lead to death,” Yazigi said.

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