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

[Fragmentedbrain]

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?

The Arab countries have taken them in.

I wouldn't trust a single known political party with this issue, and especially not those that claim to want to deal with it.

Then who is coming to the UK?

I think we should help but are all first world countries offering an
equal amount of help to these children.

This is being carried out with donated money.

I agree, perhaps we should review parliamentary expenses again? Why on earth they need subsidised fancy meals and a second home budget. There is so much money wasted on things that are just not important or necessary.

‘We are the ones causing this suffering to these children‘

What about their own ‘government’ who kickstarted the war in the first place by the October 7th massacre? Before that Gazan citizens were trusted to work in Israel and were able to receive proper healthcare (primarily driven by the same volunteers that they murdered in neighbouring Kibbutz communities!!) across the border. They spent years of aid money from foreign governments on bombs, military training and underground tunnels instead of investing in their own civilians. To suggest this is the fault of the UK is absolutely ridiculous.

£1 billion each has been given to three hospitals near me (not London), to refurbish them - money denied by the Tories.

Yes, the money is there and we will see improvements, but it takes time to repair the damage done by years of underfunding.

GOSH is a specialist children’s hospital for the most severe and rare cases. Nearly every major hospital in the UK has children’s facilities. By comparing the number of beds at GOSH to the number of children coming from Gaza, you are portraying a system that will buckle by the addition of 300 children from overseas. This is not the case and is alarmist. I imagine more than 300 children will be admitted over this weekend from A&E alone. It is possible that more than 300 children had appointments and surgery delayed or cancelled because of the doctors’ strike last week.

Why don’t you take your alarmist anti-compassion for starving children and do some constructive instead?

😂 I know that Palestine definitely would not be flying us over there to treat us.

Agree on both counts 👏👏

No it isn't. A previous round was. This is being funded by the government. They are two separate projects.

Yes it is.

To state the bleedin’ obvious, that is because we have the money and resources available to treat Palestinians, but Palestine (Gaza, to be exact) most definitely does not have the money or the resources to treat us. That can’t have escaped your attention.

Sick children to be evacuated from Gaza war for NHS treatment

https://www.thetimes.com/article/3fadb216-0c47-4c61-869a-c6050ad88e44?shareToken=302b60f70124cd458656dd7c7a9850d0

True.

I don’t agree it’s the UKs fault, but to think 7th October is what kickstarted the war is incredibly ignorant and fixed with a quick google. This war has been going on since before any of us existed

They say "The internet doesn't forget", I hope that's true. I hope people's Genocide apologism, famine denial, hate and racist based stupidity follow them for rest of their lives.

Some needs to tell you this @Fragmentedbrain but you are a miserable excuse for a human being.

Yes. Read the thread and/or the article.

This didn’t start on October the 7th, this has been going on for years and years. Both sides have their views and it is woven with religion, politics and history. Both parties have been treated abysmally by the rest of the world and each other throughout history. It isn’t about Hamas and the IDF, not truly, they are the current cover faces for it all. The deeper issues need mediating but I honestly can’t see how there will ever be a resolution that will be satisfactory to both sides sadly.

They couldn’t. Their hospitals are almost entirely destroyed.

This take is so wild I don’t even know where to start with it.

You are the one arguing against expedited treatment for children... I mean you probably don't understand what you're saying so don't worry about it.

Presumably some of them are orphans - I don’t know though.

I'm talking if roles were reversed... obviously 🤦🏼‍♀️