IT'S LIKE THE APOCALYPSE' SAYS BRITISH DOCTOR IN GAZA: IN A HARROWING DISPATCH, HEROIC NHS SURGEON DESCRIBES HORROR OF TREATING CHILD BOMB VICTIMS...DURING A CEASEFIRE
David Nutt
We had a child, an eight-year-old girl, who had severe fragment wounds from an exploded bomb. She had a hole in her stomach, her back, in her chest and colon.
Thankfully, we did manage to save her.
Most of the operations we’re doing are on children and young people. They come in with crush injuries, and massive fragment wounds from shells and bits of buildings.
In the afternoon, we heard that the hospital was about to be bombed. I was operating at the time so could not leave the patient. There was only me and a colleague.
We are both very experienced, so we hid ourselves away in the operating theatre and just went on with it.
On Friday night I was operating on a 25-year-old man who had massive injuries caused by a bomb blast. Sadly he died in intensive care six hours after surgery. The trauma was just too much for him.
