Monica Johnston, a nurse at European Hospital, sends in this message:
As a human being, you can’t, just can’t duscount the unimaginable suffering that’s happening here to children, to women, everybody. For example, I helped a young boy in the OR who was apparently opening a can of tuna. This was reported to me. And he lost one hand, part of the another, and his legs needed to be amputated. This is not okay. This can just speak to anybody. And then on top of that, there is just an increased level of trauma that I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Working at a level one burn in a trauma center, I can count maybe a handful of injuries of this magnitude that I’ve dealt with in a year. Here I’m dealing with a handful of fresh tragedies of this magnitude in a day. Now think of the resources it takes to take care of just one of these patients. In America, sometimes we are running short on that. Here, with no new aid supplies coming in, you just can’t do it. You can’t keep these people alive. And now with the border closed and Rafah being invaded, staff aren’t coming to work for fear of their own safety, their own families safety. So you have an ICU staffed with less than half of the nurses and less than half of the doctors. I saw two physicians the other day rounding on three ICUs. The nurses, the doctors, the cleaning staff, everybody’s exhausted. It’s not from lack of caring, but the care that they’re getting here is just not okay. We don’t have the supplies; we don’t have the human beings to maintain it. I’m begging anybody to reach out to their local government to beg for a ceasefire so that we can get more aid in, more supplies, more people, and then we can safely exit when it’s time for us to leave our mission. These people need our help. Please help.