Aussie surgeon’s two weeks in Gaza: ‘Is this kid going to have a good life if I save him?’
Surgeon Dr Sanjay Adusumilli and GP Dr Siraj Sira returned earlier this month from working in the war-torn area.
When Sydney colorectal surgeon Dr Sanjay Adusumilli was performing surgery on a 10-year-old in Gaza, part of him just wanted the child to die peacefully.
A piece of shrapnel had pierced the boy’s abdomen after a bomb blast, existing through his right buttock.
His intestines were left hanging outside his body.
“I had to open his abdomen. He had lots of holes in the small intestine,” Dr Adusumilli told The Guardian Full Story podcast last week.
