As explosions rattle our Gaza field hospital, we brace for the wounded
Al Jazeera
A Red Cross surgeon takes us inside a hospital’s operations as staff work to save patients following an attack.
The explosions are the cue.
Boom. And again: Boom.
I immediately know that a mass influx of patients is imminent.
On June 21, in the coastal area of al-Mawasi, on the southern end of the Gaza Strip, dozens of people were killed and scores injured when hostilities reached a displacement camp near the premises of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Within minutes, the Red Cross field hospital next door, where I work as the senior medical officer, began receiving patients.
That afternoon, I had been sitting in the admin area of the hospital in a meeting about staffing and rosters when we heard a particularly loud explosion.
