KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 -- The injuries inflicting Gazans from the Israeli attack were unprecedented, said Dr Yuko Nakajima, Japan president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), more commonly known in English as Doctors Without Borders.

Based on her personal account when she worked for three weeks in Nasser Hospital last year, the emergency physician revealed all she could do was make sure that her patients were stable and would survive until surgery as the medical infrastructure there was unable to provide full care for more severe injuries.

"The extent of injuries are so severe, the burns are some you have never seen before," she said during an MSF briefing attended by Malay Mail yesterday.

"The more severe your injury is, you need mult...