Liverpool doctors travel to Gaza
A surgeon from Liverpool, who set up an organ transplant scheme in Gaza, is warning patients will die as fighting rages with Israel. Abdul Hammad says the city's hospital is at breaking point
A surgeon from Liverpool, who set up an organ transplant scheme in Gaza, is warning patients will die as fighting rages with Israel. Abdul Hammad says the city's hospital is at breaking point
This is the second of our reports from the Gaza Strip, where surgeons from the Royal Liverpool Hospital have carried out the first ever kidney transplant. We travelled with them on their latest mission to operate on patients unable to leave Gaza for life saving treatment.
But the doctors face a huge dilemma. After travelling thousands of miles to perform surgery on a young girl, when they arrive, they discover complications and the operation, which is her last chance, is thrown into doubt. From Gaza, our correspondent Rachel Townsend reports.
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