Angel

© Zoriah Miller, May 2006. Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories.

An infant with a compromised immune system suffering from severe bacterial infections which were a result of the lack of sterile equipment in the hospital is treated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Al Naser Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza Strip Occupied Palestian Territory, May 8, 2006. Doctors at Al Naser do not even have paper towls to dry their hands with before assisting patients much less the essential sterilized linens needed to prevent infection and death in infants and those with with compromised immune systems. After the cessation of aid from America and EU countries, hospitals in Gaza have literally run out of medicine and supplies. Patients die on a daily basis from easily treatable conditions due to lack of supplies such as sterile linens, needles, medicine, chemotherapy treatments etc.