What I see every day are people who are extremely thin. They have lost all their muscle mass. They have lost the fat tissue underneath their skin. Their cheekbones are very prominent and their eyes are sunken. They clearly display signs of severe malnutrition which have been quite long-standing. And they have not been eating proper food for a very long time, and this affects their ability to heal and to fight infections and to heal their wounds and make recovery from any illness really, really complicated.
We had more drugs in May. At the moment, there are no drugs. This is one thing which is clearly worse. It is clearly worse that my colleagues are even more tired. They use the word depressed. There is no end in [sic] all this in sight. The morale, I think, is extremely difficult to be maintained at the moment, so they are very tired.
The ongoing bombardment of displaced people who have been suffering for the last two years in an unimaginable way. The total collapse of the healthcare system, education system, food supply and anything else which we think is necessary for normal life of any kind. I have never witnessed or never imagined a situation like that is possible to be man-made entirely, and apparently nothing can prevent it or stop it or halt it.
The fact that this disaster I am a witness of is entirely man-made. It could have been prevented. I am anesthetizing a 33-year-old person who is going to lose his right hand on top of everything else. What is the life after that, even if he survives all that? There are many like him. There are many people who lost everything. People who lost their homes, their children, who lost their livelihood, their salaries, whatever one can think of. It is ongoing, the blockade is still ongoing. Very little comes in, and nobody knows really what will happen. The uncertainty and the long duration of this disaster is really shocking.