'You can always hear the screaming': Surgeon reveals horrors of mission to Gaza

Galway University Hospital consultant Mohammed Daoud said the stench of death in Gaza is never too far away

Galway-based surgeon Mohammed Daoud outside Al-shifa hospital in Gaza where he travelled to perform life-saving operations.

Mohammed Daoud is still haunted by the screams echoing through one of the last remaining units at Al-shifa hospital in Gaza.

Ironically, much of them were coming from the doctors themselves who faced a horrifying choice no medical professional should ever have to make. “It’s what happens when you have to choose which patient gets to live or die,” Mr Daoud told the Irish Examiner.