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"Starving doctors were treating malnutrition," he said. And the injured just kept coming. "When you enter a hospital, you smell blood," he told me. "Hospitals are meant to be holy places, sterile places but in Gaza it's like going to a public market. Patients are literally lying on the ground because there are no beds for them. "There are not enough doctors to look after them. In the intensive care unit, they wait for someone to die, to admit another critical patient."
Gaza doctors are starving while fighting to save lives, evacuated medic tells BBC
1 October 2025
Caroline Hawley Diplomatic correspondent
Summary:
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, an MSF surgeon who spent two years working in Gaza’s devastated hospitals, was evacuated to Ireland in September 2025. He describes catastrophic conditions: starving doctors treating malnourished patients, hospitals overwhelmed with the injured lying on floors, and medics drinking glucose solution just to function. Over 66,000 people have been killed since Israel’s offensive began following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Dr. Abu Mughaisib lost his home, lived in tents and hospital corridors, and sent his family to Egypt. Now safe in Dublin, he cannot eat properly knowing his colleagues remain behind. “Everything is lost,” he says.