Maltese Medical Associations express solidarity with doctors in Gaza strip

The following Maltese Medical Specialist Associations wish to express solidarity with medical doctors in the Gaza strip, who are presently working under extreme duress in the middle of a war zone; under siege; without electricity, water, and food supplies; without adequate supply of medicines and anaesthetic drugs; and surrounded by incessant bombing.

Medecins Sans Frontieres have stated that: “The situation in Gaza is catastrophic; the hospitals are overwhelmed. The number of wounded is extremely high – there is a constant influx into all the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The medical teams are exhausted, working around the clock to treat the wounded”. https://www.msf.org/hospitals-are-overwhelmed-catastrophic-situation-gaza

We encourage the Maltese government, as an EU member state, and Maltese representatives on UN Security Council to advocate more strongly for cessation of hostility and for full protection of medical facilities in accordance with international law on humanitarian protection.

Endorsed by the:

Maltese Association of Radiologists and Nuclear Medicine Physicians (MARNMP)

Maltese Association of Psychiatry (MAP)

Malta Pediatric Association (MPA)

Malta Association of Ophthalmologists (MAO)

Malta College of Family Doctors (MCFD)

Association of Anaesthesiologists of Malta (AAM)

Geriatric Medicine Society of Malta (GMSM)

Association of Emergency Physicians of Malta (AEPM)

Malta College of Pathologists

Malta College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MCOG)

Malta Association of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Maltese Association of Dermatology & Venereology (MADV)

Malta Association of Public Health Medicine (MAPHM)

Association of Surgeons of Malta (ASM)