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DOHA: Conditions for medics and patients in Gaza are as severe as ever despite a nearly two-month truce in the territory, the president of medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in an AFP interview.
“It’s as hard as it’s ever been,” Javid Abdelmoneim said of conditions for medical staff operating in Gaza’s hospitals, speaking on the sidelines of the annual Doha Forum on diplomacy.
“While we’re able to continue doing operations, deliveries, wound care, you´re using protocols or materials and drugs that are inferior, that are not the standard. So you’ve got substandard care being delivered,” he explained.
“We’re seeing the injured patients in the emergency rooms in which we work throughout the strip,” he added.
The MSF president said that since the truce began, aid “hasn’t come in to the level that´s necessary”.
“There isn’t a substantial change and it is being weaponised [….] So as far as we´re concerned that is an ongoing feature of the genocide. It´s being used as a chip and that’s something that should not happen with humanitarian aid,” said Abdelmoneim.
