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Published 18 Jan, 2024 02:58pm

Doctors putting salt in wounds without antiseptic in Gaza

“Doctors can’t find anything to treat their patients, now they just use salt. Even salt is $13 per kilogramme. Can you imagine putting salt on people’s wounds to disinfect them?” displaced Palestinian Ibrahim Baraikat told Al Jazeera.

Hospital shelves have been bare for weeks with some with patients undergoing amputations without anaesthetic, Al Jazeera reports.

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