“It makes me cry every time.'
Brenda Maldonado, a nurse working with Chicago-based nongovernmental organization Med Global, walks among patients and personnel at Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza.Those are the words of Nurse Brenda Maldonado from Washington State, describing to ABC News what she witnessed over the past two weeks.
For her own safety, it's only now that she has left Gaza that ABC News can share Maldonado's story as she worked there, following her and documenting her journey – into the hospital each day through cramped tent encampments, through hospital corridors filled with patients for whom there are few beds.
"A lot of blast injuries, shrapnel injuries, children, older people," she said. "Everybody of any age, not soldiers. I haven't seen a soldier since I've been here. It's basically civilians." Brenda Maldonado, a nurse working with Chicago-based nongovernmental organization Med Global, observes as physicians attend to a child with head trauma at Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza.It's not just bullets and bombs, however, that are killing and injuring children. Many die in traffic accidents, while still others fall victim to unsafe, inhospitable conditions in the crowded camps, including severe burns from boiling water.
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