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STORY: WHO / GAZA KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL
TRT: 6:07
SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 28 MARCH 2024, NORTH GAZA
28 MARCH 2024, KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL, NORTH GAZA
1. Various shots, WHO mission convoy arriving
2. UPSOUND (English) Luca Pigozzi, Emergency Medical Team (EMT) Coordinator, WHO (English):
“This will be your team. They stay here with you. Four: We have a surgeon, orthopaedist, anaesthesiologist and emergency doctor. They will be part of your team.”
3. Med shot, external shots of the EMTs being greeted by health workers
4. Various shots, medical supplies being unloaded from the ambulance
5. Med shot, external shot of EMT doctor greeting hospital Director.
6. UPSOUND (English) Luca Pigozzi, Emergency Medical Team (EMT) Coordinator, WHO (English):
“And here we are. We finally bring them here. Okay, so they are going to stay here for two weeks actually. And then we are already organising the next rotation.”
7. UPSOUND (English) Health worker:
“I’d like to thank WHO greatly for their efforts to bring an excellent team here to help the people here.”
8. UPSOUND (English) Dr Ahmad Obeid, EMT Anaesthesiologist, Palestinian American Bridge (PAB) - International Emergency Medical Team:
“Today we drove from the south to the north with complete ruins all through the road. There is no building that's left intact.”
9. Med shot, hospital worker showing EMTs equipment
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Ahmad Obeid, EMT Anaesthesiologist, Palestinian American Bridge - International Emergency Medical Team (PAB):
“The working conditions for the medical staff here is very hard. They are working without support, so they're working tirelessly, they're exhausted, very limited supplies. They have to be more like magicians than doctors trying to figure out how to help the patients with whatever they have. It's a very, very hard situation.”
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Farhan Abdul Azeez, EMT Emergency Doctor, PAB:
“The people here are absolutely amazing, and they're worth every… If we could save one life, if we could make a difference for one child, if we can get one child transferred out of here to an outside country to get the care he needs for a limb reconstruction or rehab for a amputation, it's worth it. We all have to do our part.”
12. Various shots, Nour and her mother, Nour coughing
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ameera Mohammad, Nour’s mother:
“I have been waiting for this news for a long time. I feel very happy now, thank god. I am hoping that my daughter will now recover after her treatment abroad.”
14. Various shots, Nour being carried by a Cadus Paramedic (International Emergency Medical Team) to the ambulance where she is examined before leaving.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS (IMC) FIELD HOSPITAL, RAFAH, GAZA, 28 MARCHI 2024
15. Various shots of the convoy vehicles arriving at IMC, being greeted by IMC health workers and Nour being carried into the field hospital by a Cadus paramedic.
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Luca Pigozzi, Emergency Medical Team (EMT) Coordinator, WHO:
“Today we went again to Kamal Adwan Hospital in North Gaza. We successfully deployed an international emergency medical team that will support the hospital for the next weeks. Additionally, we also referred one critical patient affected by cystic fibrosis from Kamal Adwan here to IMC Field Hospital in Rafah, together with the caretaker and the rest of the family. And in the next few days, we will also coordinate for the international medical evacuation abroad.”
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Münz, Head of Mission & Medical Evacuator, Cadus (International Emergency Medical Team):
“It was a pretty heavy mission, but we are really happy that it was successful. We already evacuated two patients last Saturday, and we hope that we can proceed like this because there are many, many, many more people that urgently need better medical care.”
18. Various shots of Nour being examined by IMC health workers and being consoled by her mother
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Ehab Imtair, Emergency Medicine, (IMC) Field Hospital:
“As for the child, Nour, who arrived at the hospital, she has weak blood and has chest infections as a result of the nature of the disease she has. She has chronic lung fibrosis, but, God willing, she will receive full care and the necessary medications.”
20. Various shots, Nour being prepared for an x-ray.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners deployed an international emergency medical team and evacuated a child from Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza on Thursday (28 Mar). The emergency medical team - the first in northern Gaza - includes one general surgeon, one emergency doctor, one orthopedic surgeon and one anesthetist.
The evacuated patient is 12 years old with cystic fibrosis and in the next few days will be transferred abroad for further treatment.
The hospital is serving 120 patients at the moment, with about 700 patients circulating daily, including those who are referred from Al-Ahli hospital.
The pressure on health workers operating without relief is unimaginable.
Hospitals must be protected, and humanitarian partners must be allowed safe, sustained access to provide health aid, food, fuel and support in restoring the facilities to their full capacity.
