Dr Graeme Groom, a British orthopaedic surgeon who has volunteered in hospitals across Gaza more than 40 times, says a problem with shortages of medicine in the war-torn enclave is that it sounds \u201calmost benign\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have colleagues who are in Gaza every month, and last night, a colleague sent an urgent request for an antifungal drug called amphotericin,\u201d he told Al Jazeera on the sidelines of the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wanted this for an 18-year-old girl who had a very rare fungal infection, a mucormycosis, as a consequence of diabetes, multiple comorbidities, poorly treated because of the shortages. And her very last message was, \u201cThis is an emergency. The fungus is eating her face,\u201d Groom said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo when we talk about the shortages and we talk about the lists that are zero stock, both of medicine and surgical equipment, it doesn\u2019t sound quite as dramatic, but the individual impact is absolutely huge,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n
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