The Toronto Star‘s Mitch Potter visits the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza and discovers a new meaning to triage as doctors struggle to treat the casualties of inter-Palestinian violence:
Medical workers, who remain among the 165,000 civil service staff going on three months without pay from the bankrupt and internationally boycotted Palestinian government, are operating under the assumption the battle may yet spill inside the hospital doors.
“We have to be afraid,” Abu Raya said.
To avoid such confrontations, doctors now are processing patients according to faction. One side’s casualties get the briefest of triage at Kamal Adwan before being moved to other hospitals, the rest are admitted for full treatment. None appear interested in playing politics with a scalpel. They simply don’t know what else to do.
