Massive casualties among healthcare personnel have crippled Gaza's medical infrastructure, with 83 workers held in detention and 1,700 killed according to the Government Media Office. Clinicians face severe psychological burdens, frequently encountering relatives among the dead and wounded in their own emergency rooms. A Public Library of Science study revealed that 41 percent of surveyed medical workers have suffered personal family bereavement, while 78 percent cannot access mental health support.
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Severe personal losses and acute trauma are actively driving experienced clinicians out o…: Severe personal losses and acute trauma are actively driving experienced clinicians out of active hospital service.
The combination of widespread workplace displacement and immense bereavement has triggere…: The combination of widespread workplace displacement and immense bereavement has triggered an unprecedented healthcare staffing crisis.
A critical shortage of mental health support leaves nearly four-fifths of surveyed medica…: A critical shortage of mental health support leaves nearly four-fifths of surveyed medical personnel without psychological assistance.
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Doctors and nurses struggle to cope with the horrors they endured during the height of the Gaza war.
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Manar Fayyad, 29, an anaesthesiologist at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, has suffered severe psychological trauma since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023.
The turning point came when he discovered that a man lying before him in the operating room was his own brother Shadi, who was killed in an Israeli air strike on December 27, 2023.
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