Gaza’s Al Shifa: A hospital on the brink | Featured Documentary

Gaza’s main hospital is overflowing with both the living and the dead. The morgues are at full capacity and the bodies spill to the street outside Al Shifa hospital. Inside hundreds of seriously injured fill the hallways as the doctors decide which lives they should save. Men, women and children are among the wounded and doctors work under immense pressure knowing all services will soon grind to a halt when the backup generators stop working. Israel’s complete siege on Gaza has meant no food, no water, no electricity and no fuel. As these deplete faster than the hospital can cope, Al Shifa is on the brink on catastrophe. While the hospital struggles to cope with the injured, other patients include 70 people on ventilators, 200 receiving dialysis and 118 babies in incubators. Without electricity, they will die. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a medical charity called the escalation “abhorrent”. “As Gaza loses power, hospitals lose power, putting newborns in incubato