British doctor in Gaza says children dying due to lack of basic medical aid

A British surgeon in the Gaza Strip says that children are dying of easily treatable issues due to a lack of medical aid going into the Strip.

“We are losing children left, right, and center, these are avoidable deaths,” Dr. Victoria Rose, who is volunteering at the  Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, tells the UK’s Channel 4.

“I lost a four-year-old two nights ago from overwhelming sepsis that in the UK would not have happened because I would have had the facilities to run basic tests like a full blood count and a renal function,” she says. “I don’t have any of that. Our blood bank has been absolutely destroyed.”

“These are all things that could be treated, we need the aid,” says Rose. “Irrespective of what’s going on in the Strip with regard to, you know, the politics, it’s a humanitarian issue and we need to give these people food and medical aid.”

Dr Victoria Rose is a British surgeon currently working in Nasser Hospital in Gaza.

She told Channel 4 News that today's delivery of food aid via nine trucks was a mere drop in the ocean and explained the impact of malnutrition on children she was seeing. pic.twitter.com/VthKOHgX0g

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Five aid trucks entered Gaza on Monday for the first time since March 1, when Israel halted the assistance to pressure Hamas to release dozens of hostages it is holding.

Israel argued that a sufficient amount of goods had entered the Strip during a six-week ceasefire and that Hamas has been stealing much of that aid. In recent weeks, though, some officials in the IDF have begun warning the political leadership that the enclave was on the brink of starvation.