The ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict: a humanitarian health crisis

Rick Maity¹, Harendra Kumar², Arkadeep Dhali^{3

4}, Jyotirmoy Biswas⁵, Bharat Kumar⁶

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India.
² Department of General Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
³ Internal Medicine Trainee, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
⁴ NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
⁵ Department of General Medicine, College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata, India.
⁶ Department of General Medicine, Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Editorial

Rick Maity et al. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2024.

. 2024 Jun 20;86(8):4313-4315.

doi: 10.1097/MS9.0000000000002242. eCollection 2024 Aug.

Rick Maity¹, Harendra Kumar², Arkadeep Dhali^{3

4}, Jyotirmoy Biswas⁵, Bharat Kumar⁶

¹ Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India.
² Department of General Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
³ Internal Medicine Trainee, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
⁴ NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
⁵ Department of General Medicine, College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata, India.
⁶ Department of General Medicine, Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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