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A British doctor who has worked in other war zones says nothing has prepared him for the devastation he is seeing in Gaza.

Prof Martin Griffiths is based at a facility south of Gaza City, which has seen a “significant influx” of patients arriving from the besieged metropolis.

“I’ve worked in austere environments. I’ve been in South Sudan. This is an order of magnitude – if not two – worse,” he tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“Nothing I’ve ever seen or heard has prepared me for the level of devastation and infrastructure loss that is occurring in Gaza,” he says.

Griffiths says his morning will begin at 04:00 when he is woken up by nearby bombing. His day is then “punctuated by seeing a litany of malnourished, starving, ill people with chronic injuries” who need complex treatment.

“We’re seeing wounds and injuries that have not been attended to for days and weeks,” he says, adding this is “squeezing our already critically under pressure system”.

His facility is low on antibiotics, pain relief medicine and wound dressings – and much of its equipment is “on its last legs”, he adds.

“People are being squeezed and kettled further and further south and that’s becoming really apparent in our numbers,” he says.

Griffiths adds that “lots and lots of sick children” are arriving at the facility, who are all desperate, hungry and “very, very scared”.