Shortage of medicines felt by patients in Gaza

Ma'an- ...The 14-year-old's hands and feet are tied together with four sacks of water weighing one kg each. This is temporary until he undergoes surgery in five days.

He's from Al-Yarmouk in Gaza City. On his way back home Thursday, thinking of his mother’s omelets, he crossed the road carelessly. A speeding car hit him breaking his left thigh bone and tearing his school bag. The bag was donated as well as his clothes, and his father can’t afford to replace them.

To complicate the situation even more, says Tamer’s mother, doctors have not tested Tamer, and it is only nurses who take care of him. They ask his mother to by medicine from pharmacies outside the Strip "because the hospital is short of even bandages, medical gauze, and pain killers." Read more