Gaza: not to act is to act
Nizam Mamode, Susanna Fernandez-Diaz, Rola Tubail, Khaled Masoud, Walid Masoud · 2026
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Mamode and colleagues present a 2026 commentary on the collapse of kidney care in Gaza during the war that began in October 2023, arguing that not to act is itself an act. Before the war, Gaza had performed over one hundred living-donor kidney transplants and hoped to grow the program. Transplantation has now stopped entirely.
The main hospital in Khan Younis had thirty-one working dialysis machines for 238 patients in December, with no peritoneal dialysis supplies at all: no catheters, no fluid, no sterile space. Kidney failure patients who miss dialysis die within days to weeks, so rationing by scarcity is a death sentence delivered slowly. The authors, transplant professionals, write as witnesses and colleagues. Their plea is that medical neutrality cannot mean silence when a whole treatment system is dismantled.
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| CREATOR | Nizam Mamode, Susanna Fernandez-Diaz, Rola Tubail, Khaled Masoud, Walid Masoud |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |