WHO / GAZA KHAN YOUNIS HOSPITALS

With support from WHO and partners, efforts to restore health services at Nasser Medical Complex and Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis are ongoing. WHO

• Video Length: 00:06:09
• Production Date: 31 May 2024
• Asset Language: English; Arabic
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: GAZA
• MAMS Id: 3213561
• Parent Id: 3213561
• Alternate Title: unifeed240531h

Description

STORY: WHO / GAZA KHAN YOUNIS HOSPITALS
TRT: 6:09
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 31 MAY 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

Shotlist

Note: WHO provides all the fuel to the 1/3 of the hospitals that are still able to function (although only partially), and the majority of the medical supplies they need.

29 MAY 2024, AL-AMAL HOSPITAL, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

1. Various shots, WHO team meeting workers at Al-Amal
2. Various shots, damage around the hospital; destroyed ambulances, damage to buildings, equipment
3. Various shots of a makeshift triage area with health workers talking to and assessing/treating patients
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanin Wadi, Head of Reception and Emergency Department:
“The Palestine Red Crescent tries to provide full service as much as possible, regardless of the lack of resources, capabilities, and lack of personnel. We have shortages of medicines, and shortage of supplies. The situation is very difficult.”
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Haidar Al-Qudra, Manager of Al-Amal Hospital:
“We have opened all the clinics, and the expansion process is ongoing despite the scarcity of capabilities, but there is great pressure on the hospital in terms of patients and the number of visitors. This means that we should aim to increase the hospital’s capacity to accommodate more patients and perform many surgical operations.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, WHO Trauma surgeon & Emergency officer, WHO:
“We are at Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. This hospital, a PCRS hospital, is now resuming services. They provide surgery, they provide OBG (Obstetrics and gynaecology) services, they cover trauma needs and they address all the community needs.”
7. Various shots, damage around the hospital and surrounding area
8. Various shots, shallow graves, people with containers for water.

29 MAY 2024, NASSER MEDICAL COMPLEX, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

9. Various shots, the entrance to the hospital; ambulances, people arriving
10. Various shots, busy reception areas; health workers, patients
11. Various shots, newly reopened dialysis unit; patients receiving dialysis, equipment.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, WHO Trauma surgeon & Emergency officer, WHO:
“More than 800,000 people have moved from Rafah towards Khan Younis and the middle area. Right now, we are at Nasser Medical Complex, where WHO is enabling partners like UK-MED, MAPUK, MSF France, and other health partners to revive this really important hospital. WHO is committed to support Gaza’s health system.”
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Atef Mohammed Al-Hamoud, Director General of Nasser Medical Complex:
“We are in the process of restoring the complex, as the World Health Organization has graciously supported the complex; the dialysis departments or the dialysis department. The former dialysis section was completely burned down. The World Health Organization provided us with fifteen new dialysis machines to provide the service, and now we can provide service to two hundred and fifty patients around the clock inside the complex.”
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ramzi Fathy, dialysis patient:
“This is a great blessed work, and may God bless them all for such good work and great effort as they saved us all after a long time of suffering.”

Storyline

With support from WHO and partners, efforts to restore health services at Nasser Medical Complex and Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis are ongoing.