Chat became a lifeline for a doctor fighting to save his patients injured by Israeli attacks near and against the hospital itself
In late January, we helped organize a group chat between physicians from across the globe and Dr Khaled Alser, the only general surgeon remaining at Nasser hospital in the south of Gaza.
Less than a year ago Nasser hospital had been the base of 10 surgeons and 10 surgical trainees. Now the 31-year-old Alser, a recent graduate of surgical training in Gaza, was the lone surgeon leading a diminished team confronting a tsunami of trauma patients without many of the specialists or resources we take for granted at trauma centers around the world.
