Doctors gave this two -year -old child a few days old but Israel does not let her leave Gaza to be treated
Doctors say that 2-year-old Habiba Al-Askari has a few days of life, and the Gangrena rises her arms and legs, and only an urgent medical removal out of Gaza can save her life.
Habiba suffers from a rare genetic disease: protein C deficiency, which causes excessive blood coagulation and can lead to slow death. The disease is treatable – but not in Gaza, where health institutions and supplies were decimated by war.
Earlier this month, international humanitarian aid associations worked in the complex process of obtaining authorization from Israeli authorities so that Habiba could leave Gaza to receive treatment.
Habiba received in fact a formal authorization to leave Gaza, according to Cogat, the Israeli agency that coordinates Gaza’s entry and exit authorizations. And neighboring authorities Jordan were prepared to take her to Amman to receive treatment following a CNN report on her case. Earlier this week, the military of Jordan advanced with a complex mission to withdraw Habiba on Wednesday.
But at the last minute, the Israeli authorities postponed the mission, Jordan authorities said to CNN – an overwhelming surprise to their family and doctors. For now, Habiba remains in Gaza, with his state getting worse with each passing time.
“Habiba’s life is now in danger,” lamented the girl’s mother, Rana, to CNN on Thursday in tears. “I don’t realize why they don’t let her go out to receive medical treatment. What crime did she commit? ”
Cogat did not respond to CNN’s repeated requests to comment on the delay.
Habiba is one of at least 2,500 children in Gaza who urgently need to be removed from Gaza to receive medical help, according to the UN. Pursuant to the ceasefire and hostage release agreement recently signed between Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, the Israeli authorities have pledged to increase the number of residents authorized to leave Gaza to receive treatment.
However, two weeks ago that Israel does not allow the removal of people from Gaza to receive medical treatment. The last time this happened was on January 16, when only 12 patients were transferred to European countries, according to the World Health Organization. About 12,000 people in Gaza are still waiting to be transferred to receive medical treatment, according to UN .
Previously, COGAT has advanced to CNN, “in recent months,” has allowed 24 Gaza medical transfers operations through Israel to other countries to 1,075 Gaza residents seeking medical care.
Habiba runs cliff of being amputated
On Thursday morning, Habiba was admitted to an intensive care unit in Gaza with a suspected pulmonary infection. Surrounded by foreign doctors and places who struggled to keep her alive, the girl was lying, almost unconscious, moaning in pain between every difficult breath.
The arms and the right leg of the child were practically black from gangrene. Doctors told CNN that the right leg will have to be amputated and that it may be too late to save the arms.
The gangrene can lead to sepsis – an infection that spreads to the bloodstream – which increases the risk of rapid bankruptcy of organs and death.
A high Jordano employee has advanced to CNN that Amman continues to insist on the request for withdrawal of Habiba with the Israeli authorities and is ready to act immediately.
With the Gaza Health System under fire, doctors do not have diagnostic instruments to definitely determine what is happening to him, he admitted to CNN Mohamed Kuziez, a American pediatrician from Colorado, who recently left Gaza after his own have volunteering at the NGO Rahma Worldwide.
Kuziez first treated Habiba for the first time several weeks ago in the city of Gaza, and supervised his care while doctors expected the Israeli authorization to transport it to south, a first step in the withdrawal process.
But as soon as he landed again in the US, he received the news of the dramatic deterioration of his health. “I am trying to be present to support the mother, to try to give all the medical advice we can give,” he said, choking on tears.
“But deep in my mind, it worries that the situation may have gone too far. There is still hope for her, but it is decreasing every minute that passes, ”he lamented.
Mohamed Kuziez confesses that the plague knows that Habiba’s disease could have been treated in time if she had had access to proper care. When the pediatrician left Gaza, he recalls, “my heart simply wanted to take it in his arms and cross the border with her.”
Blocking your withdrawal will be a death sentence, warns the doctor: “For anyone with medical knowledge, it seems a deliberate attempt to kill this child. There is no other way to describe it. This child needs critical emergency care. ”
