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STORY: WHO / GAZA RAFAH HOSPITAL
TRT: 03:21
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 08 MAY 2024, KUWAIT HOSPITAL, RAFAH, GAZA STRIP, STATE OF PALESTINE
1. Various shots, exterior hospital building, ambulances and people
2. Various shots, busy hospital entrance, crowded with people and patients
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Jamal Al-Hams, Director, Kuwait Hospital:
“There are big difficulties, big challenges as well. We need support whether at the level of human resources or at the level of financial capabilities. And what’s even more important than both is securing medicines and medical supplies, because the crossing points and boards are closed, and it is no longer possible to get more supplies. In addition to securing fuel because it’s a core element for the continuity of the medical service. The amount of fuel we have now is sufficient for a few more days after that the generator will stop and the medical service will stop completely.”
4. Various shots, patients being examined and treated by health workers, equipment
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Lana Jamal Ibrahim, General Practitioner, Kuwait Hospital:
“Once the decision was made to completely evacuate Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital, some chronic disease cases that were hospitalized at Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital came to us, and frankly we did not have anything for them; no beds, no rooms, no dialysis machines either or any medicines at Kuwait Hospital. We couldn’t even provide them with the proper or even enough treatment of what they actually needed. Therefore, some of them went to their homes and some were displaced, and they didn’t receive the necessary care.”
6. Various shots, additional hospital capacity inside a tent in the grounds of the hospital, health workers, patients and medical equipment
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Jamal Al-Hams, Director, Kuwait Hospital:
“Unfortunately, there are no government hospitals that have inpatient departments available to me to refer cases to, and the biggest question I and the medical staff have is: where do we refer/transfer cases? At this moment there are no answers.”
8. Pan right, hospital interior
Since the escalation in Rafah, over 100,000 people have left the city for Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, but more than 1.4 million people remain Rafah and are at risk, including 600,000 children.
Already, one of Rafah’s three hospitals, the Al-Najjar hospital, has had to shut down. Al-Najjar’s patients have moved elsewhere, including to the Kuwait hospital.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Jamal Al-Hams, Director, Kuwait Hospital:
“There are big difficulties, big challenges as well. We need support whether at the level of human resources or at the level of financial capabilities. And what’s even more important than both is securing medicines and medical supplies, because the crossing points and boards are closed, and it is no longer possible to get more supplies. In addition to securing fuel because it’s a core element for the continuity of the medical service. The amount of fuel we have now is sufficient for a few more days after that the generator will stop and the medical service will stop completely.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Lana Jamal Ibrahim, General Practitioner, Kuwait Hospital:
“Once the decision was made to completely evacuate Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital, some chronic disease cases that were hospitalized at Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital came to us, and frankly we did not have anything for them; no beds, no rooms, no dialysis machines either or any medicines at Kuwait Hospital. We couldn’t even provide them with the proper or even enough treatment of what they actually needed. Therefore, some of them went to their homes and some were displaced, and they didn’t receive the necessary care.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Jamal Al-Hams, Director, Kuwait Hospital:
“Unfortunately, there are no government hospitals that have inpatient departments available to me to refer cases to, and the biggest question I and the medical staff have is: where do we refer/transfer cases? At this moment there are no answers.”
Hospital staff are removing supplies and some equipment to safeguard them. Kuwait Hospital is already facing a rising influx of casualties amid dire shortages of beds and medical staff.
