A trauma surgeon on why Gaza is the worst of war zones : David Nott / The Economist

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"David Nott is a consultant surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital in London, where he specialises in vascular and trauma surgery. He is the co-founder of the David Nott Foundation, which trains surgeons in war zones."

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Excerpt:

"The accident and emergency department was overrun and there were patients lying on the floor and propped up against the wall. Many of them had such severe infections of their limbs that they required amputation; some were due to the effect of diabetes being left untreated, others from the effect of previous injury. Khan Younis, a city north of Rafah, was at that time under bombardment and many of the wounded had to be left for 12 hours or so before being brought in to us. The majority of them were by that time in a state where nothing could be done. They were dead by the morning."