I couldn’t breathe," Moustafa told Mohamed El Saife, a freelance journalist in Gaza working for CBC News.
Moustafa requires additional treatment for his leg, but his uncle in Rafah said it’s been a challenge getting him to a hospital in nearby Khan Younis.
On Nov. 3, he, his wife, their children and his mother were sheltering at the Osama bin Zaid school, in the Al-Saftawi area north of Gaza City, when it was attacked by Israeli forces.
Deirdre Nunan, a Canadian orthopedic surgeon from Saskatchewan, said she can’t stomach the idea of patients who lost a limb not receiving pain medicine.
“The degree of pain, unmanaged post-operatively, would be absolutely unimaginable,” she said in an interview with CBC News from Afghanistan, where she is working with another non-governmental organization.
Children can have a normal life after an amputation, Nunan said, but only if a number of conditions are met: The surgery must be done right away, and their limb must be pain free; there is no infection; they have access to good prosthetics; and they have all of the social, emotional and environmental support they need.
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