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Jordan field hospital in Gaza performs life-saving surgery on 6-month-old

Amman: The Jordan Hospital Gaza/78 field hospital performed Saturday a surgery on a 6-month-old child to remove shrapnel from his skull and another surgery on a girl to save her limb.

The director of the Gaza Regional Hospital/78 said: “Medical teams are in the hospital daily with various cases of illness and injuries that the people of the Gaza Strip are exposed to as a result of the bombing.

“Today, a child arrived at the Jordanian Regional Hospital with an injury to the head with suspicion of a foreign presence inside the head.”

The medical teams at the hospital performed a surgery that lasted 5 hours on an 18-year-old woman who was injured in the left forearm.

Her arm needed to be amputated as a result of the fragmentation of the bones and the destruction of the tissues and muscles. A complex operation was performed by a specialist in bone and joint surgery and the installation of a metal plate And screws, saving the woman’s arm and preventing it from amputation.

Source: Jordan News Agency