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STORY: WHO / GAZA NASSER MEDICAL COMPLEX
TRT: 5:27
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 APRIL 2024 AND18 APRIL 2024, NASSER MEDICAL COMPLEX, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
29 APRIL 2024, NASSER MEDICAL COMPLEX, KHAN YOUNIS
1. Various shots, the convoy arriving at the Nasser Medical Complex and WHO and partners in discussion.
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Husna Daffalla, Health Cluster Coordinator, Gaza:
We're at Nasser Medical Complex with several partners looking at restoring the services as soon as possible.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Husna Daffalla, Health Cluster Coordinator, Gaza:
It's a whole team that is here, right now on the ground. We have experts from health, surgeons, WASH, but also we have the engineering team with us.”
10. Various shots, waste and rubbish being cleared up at one of the hospital entrances by workers
11. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Husna Daffalla, Health Cluster Coordinator, Gaza
“The plan here is not to open the hospital as a whole, like the way it was before, but there is a minimum package of services that we expect at secondary health care facilities at this level. The maternity, the OTs (Operating Theatres), the emergency department, paediatrics, intensive care unit and new-born unit.”
12. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Aurélie Godard, Medical coordinator, MSF France:
“So we kind of have access from the outside, so very directly. And they have the slope for the wheelchair. Um, the waiting area will be here, and then they have easy access to our doctors and surgeons. If they need any advice or they want to ask something, they can easily go because the two IPDs (inpatient department) are on each side. Exactly.”
13. Various shots, showing rubble, and destroyed ambulances outside of the hospital
14. SOUNDUP (English)Dr Mohammed Kurdi, program officer, Medical Aid for Palestinians:
“You know, seeing the place you worked and you were qualified in being completely out of service. It's not something… because you know that this was one of the last remaining hospitals in the Gaza Strip.”
15.SOUNDUP (English) Dr Husna Daffalla, Health Cluster Coordinator, Gaza:
“Biggest hospitals remaining.”
17. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Mohammed Kurdi, program officer, Medical Aid for Palestinians:
“That’s why it’s sad, Yeah, but hopefully we still have something, so there is hope that.”
18. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Husna Daffalla, Health Cluster Coordinator, Gaza
“There is hope. We can we still have the equipment in the theatre, we still have few supplies that we've seen and we can always restore.”
19. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Mohammed Kurdi, program officer, Medical Aid for Palestinians:
“And the good news, out of six theatres now, we can operate in five of them. Only one anaesthesia machine is broken and the remaining ones are functional. So one by one we...
20. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Husna Daffalla, Health Cluster Coordinator, Gaza
“That’s good.”
21. Various shots, showing different parts of the hospital being cleaned and medical equipment being checked.
22. Various shots, Dr Mohammed Kurdi, showing video on his smartphone from 18APR2024 of all the mess and rubbish, and how much has been achieved less than 2 weeks.
18 APRIL 2024, NASSER MEDICAL COMPLEX, KHAN YOUNIS
23. Various roaming shots from 18APR2024 iPhone footage showing various parts of the hospital; damage, rubbish, medical waste.
29 APRIL 2024, NASSER MEDICAL COMPLEX, KHAN YOUNIS
24. Various shots showing a worker cleaning and mopping the floor or a ward
25. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Aurélie Godard, Medical coordinator, MSF France (English)
“We are going to start with one, the first IPD in 1 (inpatient department) 24/7. And then once it's filled, when we scale up, etc., we can do the other one, like for example daytime to do all the dressings, debridement, etc. but we should be self-sufficient.”
26. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Aurélie Godard, Medical coordinator, MSF France:
“So that’s the pharmacy, the OT (Operating theatre) Pharmacy.”
27. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Aurélie Godard, Medical coordinator, MSF France:
“They spent the last 4 to 5 days to clean, yeah.”
28. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Husna Daffalla
“The smell is much better. Yeah, definitely.”
29. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Aurélie Godard, Medical coordinator, MSF France:
“We had a lot of work to do with the machines. The OT table is here.”
30. Various shots, showing health workers deep cleaning various items inside the IPD
WHO and partners have started work to clean-up Nasser Medical Complex as part of efforts to restore functionality so it can serve patients again.
