It took five days before Mohammad Wadi was able to speak with doctors at the Nasser Institute hospital in Cairo, Egypt. Following his relentless attempts to gain admission, the forty-year-old Palestinian from Gaza arrived on Monday last week at the hospital’s leukemia department.
On the previous Thursday, Wadi, escorted by his nephew Ramadan, took urgent referral papers from Gaza’s Ministry of Health and immediately set off to the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.
“The first three days, I had to go to a private clinic, for I was not admitted at the hospital,” Wadi explained to The Electronic Intifada while sitting in a wheelchair at the leukemia ward.
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