AMMAN — The Jordanian Field Hospital South Gaza said on Wednesday that it has successfully carried out two highly specialised limb-salvage surgeries, saving the affected limbs of two patients in their forties who were suffering from unhealed fractures and advanced medical complications.

 

The operations were conducted as part of the hospital's ongoing humanitarian mission to provide specialised medical care and ease the suffering of people in the Gaza Strip, according to a Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army statement.

 

The first patient was treated for a severely comminuted, non-union fracture of the lower femur complicated by an acute, active bone infection.

 

The second patient suffered from a non-union fracture of the tibia. Both cases required complex surgical intervention to preserve the affected limbs and maximise the chances of restoring their function.

 

The procedures included surgical debridement to remove infected tissue, followed by open reduction and internal fixation using metal plates and screws.

 

In the first case, surgeons also implanted antibiotic bone cement to fill the bone defect caused by the shattered femur and help control the infection. In the second case, a bone graft was used to stimulate healing and restore skeletal stability.

 

Both surgeries were successful, significantly improving the patients' prospects of regaining mobility and enhancing their quality of life after enduring prolonged pain and physical disability, the statement said.

 

Jordan runs two military field hospitals in Gaza, one in the Strip's north and was established in 2009 following the war in 2008, and the second is in Khan Younis in the south, which was established in November 2023 at the peak of the Israeli war of aggression on the coastal enclave that erupted on October 7, 2023.

 

Besides the field hospitals in Gaza, the JAF established the Jordanian field hospital in Nablus in late November 2023.

 

Other humanitarian programmes include the land bridge for aid delivery, the mobile bakery, the Restoring Hope Initiative, which provides prosthetics for amputees, and the evacuation of critical cases to Jordanian hospitals.