4 children are lying on one bed in the nursery ward of the Emirati Hospital in the city of Rafah. Some of their names are unknown, as there is no contact with their families, and no one is taking care of them except the medical staff, who chose to occupy themselves with providing medical and moral care to them, according to one of the nurses.

The medical staff at the hospital continued to talk about the tragedy of these children, and the necessity of evacuating them from the hospital as soon as possible, so that diseases would not be transmitted to them, whether by taking care of them, as happened with one of them, or by helping to reach their families.

Doctor Diaa Okasha says, “One of the unique and sad cases that we encountered was the story of these four children, as 3 of them were transferred from Kamal Adwan Hospital, and one from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, due to the siege of hospitals and the depletion of oxygen, and they came to the hospital without their families’ knowledge. Because of the difficulty of communications and the bloody war situation that the Gaza Strip is suffering from.”

Doctors named one of the children “Malak.” She was a 4-month-old girl who was found on a tree trunk in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City. After a night of bloody bombing that targeted the neighborhood, the child arrived without anyone recognizing her at Al-Shifa Hospital. Then, after Al-Shifa was besieged and bombed, she was transferred to the Emirati Hospital in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and she remained there for 3 months, before one of the nurses took care of an “angel” and took her home. To take care of her.

Nurse Malak Badawi also spoke to Al Jazeera Net about the story of the child, Sondos Hamouda, who arrived at the Emirati Hospital. She said, “Sondos arrived to us from Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after the hospital ran out of oxygen, about two months ago, and contact with her family was lost, and we learned that they were killed as a result of the siege and the ongoing brutal Israeli bombing of areas in the northern Gaza Strip."

The nurse adds, "The child's health is good, but if she stays for a longer period in the nursery, her condition will worsen, and she will be exposed to many diseases that she may suffer from in the long term, and she may develop autism, so we are working to have someone adopt her and for her to be discharged outside the hospital."

Dr. Okasha spoke about attempts to contact the children’s families, but to no avail. He commented on the condition of the child Sondos, saying, “Her family were initially in contact with us, and then we lost contact with them and we stopped hearing from them, and we are still searching for them or for someone who brings us closer to them.”

Source: Al Jazeera