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STORY: WHO / GAZA MEDICAL SUPPLIES
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SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 APRIL 2024, GAZA
06 APRIL 2024, KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL, NORTH GAZA
1. Various shots, WHO convoy arriving and medical supplies being unloaded.
2. Various shots, WHO team and local health workers in discussion.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Luca Pigozzi, Emergency Medical Team (EMT) Coordinator, WHO:
“After two weeks, we came back to Kamal Adwan in order to ensure the rotation of the emergency medical team that was previously deployed here. They did an immense job. The support that they give to this hospital was outstanding and highly appreciated by the management of the hospital and by all their colleagues.”
4. Various shots, medical supplies being unloaded including neonatal incubators.
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Hossam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital:
“After we sent out several distress calls, thank God today, the World Health Organization provided a lot of very important medicines and supplies to Kamal Adwan Hospital. We hope for more and more medical equipment, supplies and medicines, so we can continue to cover Gaza and the north, especially after Al-Shifa Hospital went out of service.”
6. Various shots, the Palestinian American Bridge emergency medical team saying goodbye to hospital workers
06 APRIL 2024, AL-AWDA HOSPITAL, NORTH GAZA
7. Various shots, WHO convoy arriving and supplies being unloaded.
8. Various shots, WHO, NORWAC Emergency Medical Team and local health workers in discussion.
9. SOUNSBITE (English) Dr Luca Pigozzi, Emergency Medical Team (EMT) Coordinator, WHO:
“We also facilitated the deployment of another Emergency Medical Team who is going to support Al-Awda Hospital on orthopaedic care.”
10. Various shots, WHO, NORWAC Emergency Medical Team (EMT) and local health workers in discussion.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Skår, Nurse, Nurse, NORWAC EMT:
“We are from Norway. And we are coming here to help the people. We are a surgical team with two orthopaedic surgeons and one anaesthesiologist and me, myself, an OR nurse. And we look really forward to help the people here in the North.”
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Mohammed Salha, acting director of Al-Awda Hospital:
“At Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, we received today a delegation from NORWAC through the World Health Organization. This delegation is composed of a group of doctors, orthopaedists and anaesthesiologists, in addition to an intensive care doctor. This is to help the doctors at Al-Awda Hospital to provide services to the injured in the northern Gaza Strip.”
13. Various shots, WHO, NORWAC Emergency Medical Team (EMT) and local health workers in discussion at a table.
On 6 April, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners reached Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals in north Gaza to deliver essential medical supplies and 12,000 litres of fuel each. An international emergency medical team was also deployed to Al-Awda hospital to support trauma response.
