‘People used their phone lights so we could operate on the patient’s abdomen’: Aussie surgeon on life and death in Gaza
Melbourne surgeon Dr Bushra Othman was operating with limited electricity, water and sterile supplies in the summer heat.
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Operating by phone torchlight as flies landed on open wounds, Melbourne surgeon Dr Bushra Othman describes conditions at a Gaza hospital as close to “unimaginable”.
She has just returned to Australia after a three-week medical mission to the region, where she tended to women and children with burns, blast wounds and trauma.