"As medical students in Gaza, we are taught how to save lives with nothing and how to make impossible decisions. It was my childhood dream to study medicine. I wanted to be a doctor to help people. I never imagined that I would study medicine not in a university, but in a hospital; not from textbooks, but from raw experience."
"My first such lecture was by a fifth-year medical student called Dr Khaled at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah. Al-Aqsa looks nothing like a normal hospital. There are no spacious white rooms or privacy for the patients. The corridor is the room, patients lie on beds or the floor, and their groans echo throughout the building. Due to the overcrowding, we have to take our lectures in a caravan in the hospital yard."
Medical students in Gaza receive clinical training amid destroyed universities and active conflict, learning to save lives with minimal resources. Lectures are often on mobile phones and under flashlight illumination, while senior students deliver practical teaching inside overcrowded hospitals. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital functions without normal wards or privacy; corridors and floors serve as patient areas and groans resonate through the building. Overcrowding forces instruction into a caravan in the hospital yard. Training emphasizes basic life support and creative improvisation, such as stabilising injured heads manually when splints and immobilisers are unavailable. Students develop skills through raw, on-the-ground experience under extreme conditions.
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