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STORY: WHO / GAZA AL-NASER MEDICAL COMPLEX
TRT: 03:57
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 28 DECEMBER 2023, KHAN YUNIS, GAZA
1. Various shots, Al-Naser Medical Complex, hospital with ambulance arriving and a makeshift camp next to the hospital building
2. Various shots, Al-Naser Medical Complex, hospital with busy wards and corridors with patients and Internally Displace People
3. Various shots, a doctor examining a patient
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Ahmad Abu Mustafa, Emergency Doctor, Al-Naser Medical Complex:
“As am sure you are all aware of the medical situation here at the complex, the hospital is receiving a lot more than its capacity, in fact we are functioning at 300 percent of our 100 percent capacity. The beds are full, most of the time one bed Is holding to patients at the same time, and we are basically short on all sorts of medicine supplies.”
5. Various shots, woman applying wet compress to injured girl’s forehead
6. Various shots, a doctor treating a patient
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Helen Bassam, Doctor, Al-Naser Medical Complex:
“We are facing from a big issue that the cases coming in are more than the capacity we have. As we are suffering from this issue, we are trying to handle it but the issue is not only with space, we are also short on a lot of things, medical supplies as well, and we try our best to find an alternative for them.”
8. Med shot, amputee being examined by doctor
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmmod Samer, Displaced Person:
“The apartment where my in-laws and I were staying was bombed. I lost two of my in-laws and my brother-in-law is currently in intensive care.”
10. Med shot, amputee laying in bed
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmmod Samer, Displaced Person:
“But thankfully we were transferred here by the Red Crescent and we came here and thankfully they took good care of us here. They amputated my leg here, I can’t say anything but thank God.”
12. Med shot, amputee being examined by doctor
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmmod Samer, Displaced Person:
“Now I hope they manage to find me an artificial limb so that I can move around again and help and to provide for my children.”
14. Various shots, doctor preparing and administering medication to a patient
As people continue to be massively displaced across the south of Gaza, with some families forced to move multiple times and many sheltering in overcrowded health facilities, WHO remains very concerned about the increasing threat of infectious diseases.
Since mid-October until mid-December, people living in shelters have continued to fall sick: close to 180,000 people are suffering upper respiratory infections; 136,400 cases of diarrhoea half of these among children aged under 5; 55,400 cases of lice and scabies; 5,330 cases of chickenpox; 42,700 cases of skin rash, including 4722 cases of impetigo; 4,683 cases of Acute Jaundice Syndrome; 126 cases of meningitis.
WHO and partners are working to support the health authorities to increase disease surveillance and control by supplying medicines, testing kits to support prompt detection and response to infectious diseases such as hepatitis, and trying to improve access to safe water, food, hygiene and sanitation services.
