Another "starving" Gaza child whose problems cannot be blamed on Israel

Reuters reported in March 2024:

In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms

Six-year-old Fadi al-Zant is acutely malnourished, his ribs protruding under leathery skin, his eyes sunken as he lays in bed at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, where famine is bearing down.

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Fadi suffers from cystic fibrosis. Before the conflict, he was taking medicine that his family can no longer find and eating a carefully balanced variety of food no longer available in the Palestinian enclave, according to his mother Shimaa al-Zant.

...Fadi's condition began to deteriorate about two months ago and he was admitted to Kamal Adwan hospital, Zant said. Creon - the medicine that people with cystic fibrosis need to supplement pancreatic enzymes that help digest food - was not available. 

It turns out that there were, and still are, shortages of creon worldwide, with articles about the shortages throughout the year. 

Fadi managed to leave Gaza, with Israeli permission, two months later, and he was treated in a hospital in Queens, NY.

(h/t Irene)

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