‘Little can prepare you’: British doctor describes horror working in Gaza hospital

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British doctor describes horror working in Gaza hospitalITV News
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00:00I worked in Sudan, I worked in Ukraine, Tigray wars, this is my seventh war,
00:04but mass casualties on this scale, on this frequency of civilians is entirely new to me
00:11and unique. Here it's 70, 115, 135, 189, 265 just in July. It doesn't compare. I worked
00:27in emergency medicine in the UK and I was working through the Westminster Bridge and London Bridge
00:34and 7-7 terror attack. 7-7 was something that came close, you know, there were several explosions,
00:40there were many hospitals, but that's one instance in 20 years. I had four bigger instances
00:48in nine days in a hospital that's working in a system that's on its knees, supplies, fuel, staff.

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