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Members of an emergency medical team that has treated patients at a hospital in southern Gaza in recent weeks said Monday that the horrors they've witnessed there are 'unimaginable,' from worsening malnutrition to deadly infections stemming from lack of healthcare equipment.
'We worked around the challenges we faced and managed in a different way, but the staff here are overwhelmed.' MAP said in a statement that the medical team's surgeons 'completed successful complex vascular and orthopedic surgeries on patients' at the hospital, but some 'later died due to infections in the hospitals and the inability to provide post-operative care.
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