WHO / GAZA NASSER HOSPITAL

The World Health Organization and partners continue facilitating referrals of critical patients amid ongoing hostilities around Nasser hospital in Gaza. WHO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:05:01
• Production Date: 21 February 2024
• Asset Language: Arabic; English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: GAZA
• MAMS Id: 3175814
• Parent Id: 3175814
• Alternate Title: unifeed240221c

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STORY: WHO / GAZA NASSER HOSPITAL
TRT: 05:01
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NAT

DATELINE: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS

Shotlist

20 FEBRUARY 2024, NASSER MEDICAL COMPLEX, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

1. Various shots, WHO/OCHA mission team moving patients on stretchers down corridors
2. SOUNDBITE (English) health worker, Nasser Medical Complex:
“It's an exhausting job because we are working 24/7. We have a shortage of staff. We only have five or, uh, six healthcare workers, including nurses and doctors, trying to do a health supervised…providing health like medication, dressing, in addition of all that, distributing food to the patients, making the cleaning and also bedding for the patients.”
3. Various shots, WHO/OCHA mission team and health workers prepping a young boy patient on a stretcher
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Helen Bassam, Doctor, Nasser Medical Complex:
“There is no water or electricity. The basic necessities for a livable life are not here. There are a lot of patients here that we cannot treat without the necessary tools. We are trying as much as we can to deal with this situation, but it’s a bad one.”
5. Various shots, WHO/OCHA mission team and health workers prepping a young boy patient on a stretcher before moving him towards the ambulances
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Maryam Abu Tair, volunteer Doctor, Nasser Medical Complex:
“The situation at Nasser Medical Complex is bad from every aspect; waste is everywhere, there’s no water, no electricity and no oxygen for patients.”
7. Various shots, WHO/OCHA mission team in the hospital and discussing with heath care staff the logistics of referral

20 FEBRUARY 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

8. Various shots, mission convoy on the road, garbage, displaced people

20 FEBRUARY 2024, INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS (IMC) FIELD HOSPITAL, RAFAH, GAZA

9. Various shots, patients in Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances at IMC Field hospital being assessed
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Al Saqqa, Humanitarian Affairs Officer, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Today is our third day of referring patients from Nasser Hospital to other facilities. Here we are in the IMC Field Hospital. We brought 19 patients here today. Some of them have paralysis. Some of them have abdominal injuries. Some of them have lower limb and upper limb injuries. One patient with amputation and one patient with pulmonary oedema and lung problems. Those patients are further triaged here to be seen if they are going to stay here in the IMC field hospital or be referred to other tertiary hospital like European Gaza hospital or Abu Yousef Al Najjar hospital.”
11. Various shots, patients in PRCS ambulances at the IMC Field hospital being assessed
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Al Saqqa, Humanitarian Affairs Officer, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“I never thought that this would actually be happening in a hospital. I never thought that I would ever be trying to evacuate or refer patients from the hospital. Taking patients from a tertiary hospital to a field hospital, that had never crossed my mind. But it’s happening. It's not safe for them to stay there. They don't have the quality of care, the medical care that they deserve, and they need. So that's why we keep on going and bringing them here and there. Because they deserve this care.”
13. Various shots, rubble

Storyline

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners continue facilitating referrals of critical patients amid ongoing hostilities around Nasser hospital in Gaza.

During yesterday (20 Feb)’s mission, an additional 19 patients, including some in critical condition, were transferred to hospitals in southern Gaza.

WHO said that it is devastating to hear about the condition of the hospital compound - full of garbage, medical waste, broken glass, stray animals, deserted vehicles.

WHO stressed that hospitals should always be protected and safe places for people to receive lifesaving care.