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STORY: WHO / GAZA AL AQSA HOSPITAL
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SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 09 JUNE 2024, AL-AQSA MARTYRS HOSPITAL, CENTRAL GAZA PALESTINE
1. Various shots, patients arriving for treatment, busy corridors, and wards full of patients, lots of people and activity
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Akram Saeed Al-Najjar, Emergency Department Supervisor, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital:
“Yesterday, our Reception and Emergency Department received about four hundred and twenty medical cases resulting from the camp’s attacks in the central region. Most of the cases had lost limbs, abdominal injuries, brain injuries, and burns. These cases require high care. Within one hour, we received about four hundred and twenty cases, of which one hundred and fifty cases were classified as serious cases, in addition to moderate cases and minor cases.”
3. Various shots, patients arriving for treatment, busy corridors, and wards full of patients, lots of people and activity
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Khalil Jalal, Spokesperson, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital:
“The situation is very difficult Inside the hospital, there is a shortage of medicines, medical supplies, and fuel. I mean, in Al-Aqsa Hospital, we lack medicines, we lack medical supplies, we lack equipment inside the intensive care departments, we lack machines for dialysis patients with renal failure, whose number of patients has more than quadrupled.”
5. Various shots, patients on stretchers, busy corridors, health workers treating patients, patients and family members on the floor
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Khalil Jalal, Spokesperson, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital:
“God forbid, if the remaining, second generator stops, people will die, especially the sick and injured who are in intensive care, as well as those in the neonatal and in operating rooms, as well as those in dialysis with kidney failure, it also poses a danger to the rest of the patients, especially in the cardiac unit, because this hospital requires constant electrical current.”
7. Various shots, patient Ahmed’s external fixators
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Khaled, Displaced Patient:
“The hospital’s situation is clearly very difficult; people are dying as the hospital can’t bear the number of incoming injuries Therefore, the hospital is forced to transfer patients to another hospital.”
9. Various shot showing patient Hazem’s injuries
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faraj Allah, Mother of Patient Hazem:
“My innocent child was asleep during the bombardment, the bombing happened around 1am; an innocent child who’s not at fault at all is now suffering from shrapnel in his brain, he has burns all over his body, he also has wounds on his back, and his entire body is filled with shrapnel.”
11. Various shot showing patient Hazem’s injuries
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najat Abdel Albari, Displaced Patient:
“Injured people, people on the ground, and people who died right in front of our eyes. They spent almost half a day cleaning the hospital’s floor of the blood that was everywhere; it should not be like this, there was too much blood.”
13. Various shots, hospital entrance, patients, displaced people waiting outside, a body being moved away on a stretcher
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najat Abdel Albari, Displaced Patient:
“The situation here is complete disaster, I can’t describe enough how disastrous the situation is. It’s a small hospital, it can’t handle this load; go outside and take a look the hospital’s front door, it’s packed with injured people, the emergency room is packed, the street right in front of the hospital is packed with people, and they are all injured, there’s no space for them inside the hospitals. And since yesterday and given the fact that there are too many injuries people was transferred to field hospitals, and God knows what’s going to happen to them, they might live or they might die, and as you know we have lost a lot of people in these two days.”
15. Various internal shots showing patients waiting in corridors and on the floor
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners visited the Al-Aqsa hospital on Sunday (9 Jun) to assess the response capacity of the hospital.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Akram Saeed Al-Najjar, Emergency Department Supervisor, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital:
“Yesterday, our Reception and Emergency Department received about four hundred and twenty medical cases resulting from the camp’s attacks in the central region. Most of the cases had lost limbs, abdominal injuries, brain injuries, and burns. These cases require high care. Within one hour, we received about four hundred and twenty cases, of which one hundred and fifty cases were classified as serious cases, in addition to moderate cases and minor cases.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Khalil Jalal, Spokesperson, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital:
“The situation is very difficult Inside the hospital, there is a shortage of medicines, medical supplies, and fuel. I mean, in Al-Aqsa Hospital, we lack medicines, we lack medical supplies, we lack equipment inside the intensive care departments, we lack machines for dialysis patients with renal failure, whose number of patients has more than quadrupled.”
Before the war, Al Aqsa served an estimated 150 inpatient patients daily.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Akram Saeed Al-Najjar, Emergency Department Supervisor, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital:
“Yesterday, our Reception and Emergency Department received about four hundred and twenty medical cases resulting from the camp’s attacks in the central region. Most of the cases had lost limbs, abdominal injuries, brain injuries, and burns. These cases require high care. Within one hour, we received about four hundred and twenty cases, of which one hundred and fifty cases were classified as serious cases, in addition to moderate cases and minor cases.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Khalil Jalal, Spokesperson, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital:
“The situation is very difficult Inside the hospital, there is a shortage of medicines, medical supplies, and fuel. I mean, in Al-Aqsa Hospital, we lack medicines, we lack medical supplies, we lack equipment inside the intensive care departments, we lack machines for dialysis patients with renal failure, whose number of patients has more than quadrupled.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Khalil Jalal, Spokesperson, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital:
“God forbid, if the remaining, second generator stops, people will die, especially the sick and injured who are in intensive care, as well as those in the neonatal and in operating rooms, as well as those in dialysis with kidney failure, it also poses a danger to the rest of the patients, especially in the cardiac unit, because this hospital requires constant electrical current.”
During the visit, the hospital reported to be providing care to an estimated 700 patients daily.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Khaled, Displaced Patient:
“The hospital’s situation is clearly very difficult; people are dying as the hospital can’t bear the number of incoming injuries Therefore, the hospital is forced to transfer patients to another hospital.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faraj Allah, Mother of Patient Hazem:
“My innocent child was asleep during the bombardment, the bombing happened around 1am; an innocent child who’s not at fault at all is now suffering from shrapnel in his brain, he has burns all over his body, he also has wounds on his back, and his entire body is filled with shrapnel.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najat Abdel Albari, Displaced Patient:
“Injured people, people on the ground, and people who died right in front of our eyes. They spent almost half a day cleaning the hospital’s floor of the blood that was everywhere; it should not be like this, there was too much blood.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najat Abdel Albari, Displaced Patient:
“The situation here is complete disaster, I can’t describe enough how disastrous the situation is. It’s a small hospital, it can’t handle this load; go outside and take a look the hospital’s front door, it’s packed with injured people, the emergency room is packed, the street right in front of the hospital is packed with people, and they are all injured, there’s no space for them inside the hospitals. And since yesterday and given the fact that there are too many injuries people was transferred to field hospitals, and God knows what’s going to happen to them, they might live or they might die, and as you know we have lost a lot of people in these two days.”
WHO will continue supporting the hospital with medical supplies and essential medicines.
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