300 children from Gaza to be brought to the UK for free specialist NHS care

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According to the Sunday Times. That's nearly as many beds as there are in Great Ormond Street, where the average waiting time for paediatric surgery is 15 weeks (which is fairly typical nationwide).

Why is it mysteriously possible for government to deliver these showy, headline-grabbing measures (I know we already knew it could happen from COVID policy) but not to just make systems work well in an ordinary way?

"more than 7,000 patients have been evacuated from the territory, including 5,000 children, most of whom have been transferred to Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, or Qatar. Several European countries — including Spain, Italy, Ireland, Norway, and Romania — have accepted about 200 children and are expected to take more in the coming months".

I can't begrudge those children anything.

If you’re annoyed about this, then you need to give your heads a wobble.

I’m glad those children are going to get the medical care they need.

It isn’t the NHS that will be footing the bill. It will be invoiced to an aid organisation. This is necessary and we should be airlifting whatever kids or families out that we possibly can. It is put as the NHS (as the supplier of the care) to fit a reactionary agenda. They do not pay.

My concern is after they come here and get better … are they just going to be sent back? I hope not. I saw a documentary where a mother had her very ill child helped and then they were sent back to a war torn country with no medical aid for the child to get better.

We have assisted in the genocide against them. It’s really not much/certainly not enough.

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Who would deny a child free treatment from a war zone ?

Yes. It does.

Guilty conscience.

300 isn’t a huge number. I hope they get the help they need.

Do you think is because money sent by ONU and countries to help is spent by Hamas and doesn’t get to the kids? The food starvation as well?

300 kids is a teeny drop in the ocean of NHS waiting lists. Scotland has treated Gazan kids already and they desperately want to return home as soon as it's safe - if this ever happens.

Surely they can be treated in one of the Muslim Arab nations that seems to care so much for their plight.

Of course, before October 7, Palestinian children and adults received care in Israeli hospitals, often driven their by volunteers from the kibbutzes, who were massacred on Oct 7.

Good.

Good. Surely no one is going to complain about helping children? Hopefully the UK will set an example to other countries and others will follow and help too. My only concern is what are they being sent back to once they have been treated?

Since the government is aiding and abetting the slaughter and starvation against the will of the majority of us I think treating a tiny fraction of the affected children is the least the NHS can do

Of course once they are here. This would be the next plea and follow but we should bring the whole family. Honestly, it will never end for some.

Well we're helping to fund the bombs the least we can do is help the children we've helped to severely injure? You need to direct your anger at the right place love its a bit sad and sorry you're annoyed nhs are helping injured CHILDREN

This. Why are we doing this instead of looking after our own children?

Charity begins at home. This is abhorrent and I expect some of the accompanying adults will see it as an exercise to try and stay here.

Providing medical treatment to injured children from a war zone is abhorrent, really?

It's almost as many kids as in the whole of GOSH.

Wow. Heartless much?

Oh dear