A war within a war: The battles fought by Gaza’s medics
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Neither Dr Naveen Cavale or Dr Simon Calvert had ever seen anything like it.
The amateur video showed scenes of chaos - tens of doctors jostling from wounded to wounded; journalists with bulky TV cameras swarming around beds where dark red patches bloomed through patients’ dressings.
Some casualties lay on plastic sheets on the floor, IV drips dangling above their heads.
“No hospital on earth is designed to cope with such a large and sudden influx of trauma like that. But if they had the procedures and protocol we have in London, they may be able to cope in such an emergency,” Dr Simon said.