Jakarta, Feb. 9 -- Indonesia's Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) has sent four members of its emergency medical team to assist the emergency services of Al Awda's Hospital in Jabalia, Northern Gaza.

The volunteers comprise an internist, an emergency medicine specialist, a neurosurgeon, and a nurse, said Hadiki Habib, a professional doctor who currently chairs the presidium of Indonesia's MER-C.

During their humanitarian mission, the EMT members would be involved in the Al Awda Hospital's emergency services and outpatient neurosurgery twice a week, he said in a press statement published here Saturday.

According to dr. Ni Nyoman Indira, one of the MER-C's volunteers in Northern Gaza, the Al Awda Hospital has been facing a shorta...