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STORY: WHO / GAZA TRANSFER SPECIAL CARE PATIENTS
TRT: 05:49
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 JULY 2024, GAZA CITY / 06 JULY 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP
06 JULY 2024, PUBLIC AID HOSPITAL, GAZA CITY
1. Various shots, Maarouf being escorted and loaded onto ambulance
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Raed Maarouf, referral patient:
“I am extremely happy, I am a young man, who’s hoping for perfect health, and have limbs replacements installed, in order to get back to normal life.”
3. Med shot, family member saying goodbye to Yaha and his mother
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Palestinian woman:
“My child Yaha Saber has congenital glaucoma in his eyes, he needs to be treated outside of the country, because if he doesn’t get the required treatment in time, he will lose his eyes.”
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul, referral patient:
“We were walking in the street, me, my grandfather, and my two brothers. We were shot by the drone, my grandfather and my brothers died, and I was injured, and I couldn’t walk or stand on my feet, it caused paralysis. I need someone to help me travel out of the country and be able to walk on my feet again and be happy.”
6. Various shots, Abdul being moved to a stretcher and loaded on to ambulance
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul’s mother:
“We thank the World Health Organization for helping us get from the north to south in order for us to treat the boy so he can be able to walk on his feet again, play, and visit his friends like before.”
8. Various shots, Mohammad being moved to a stretcher and loaded on to ambulance
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad, Palestinian boy:
“I was at the school, and I was shot by the quadcopter, which made me paralysed. I hope that the WHO can help me travel outside of the country, and by God’s will I’ll be able to walk and play football with my friends again.”
10. Various shots, Project HOPE Emergency Medical Team greeting WHO mission team members
11. Various shots, Project HOPE Emergency Medical Team saying goodbye to hospital health workers
12. Various shots, fuel tanker offloading diesel at hospital
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Noor Al Whaidi, Health emergency officer, World Health Organization
(WHO):
“We, as WHO had a mission to Gaza City. The mission objectives are: to deliver 22,000 litres of fuel to Al Sahba and Public Aid Hospitals, as well, to ensure the rotation of international Emergency Medical Teams who are supporting the local hospital with advance trauma care, as well they are supporting and training the local staff. Third, and last but not least, we are evacuating 5 patients. Those patients are in need for emergency medical evacuation from the north to the south as well as evacuating abroad. WHO is continuously working to support the emergency situation.”
06 JULY 2024, INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS, FIELD HOSPITAL, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP
14. Various shots, ambulances arriving at field hospital, health workers transferring patients into field hospital
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad’s father:
“My son Mohammad has an enlarged spleen and liver, and he also has enlarged veins in his esophagus. Mohammad is the only case in Gaza strip, and one of the very rare cases in the world with such a medical condition. We hope that he will be able to get treated outside of the country, as how the situation was before the war; he was getting treated outside the country.”
16. Med shot, Mohammad lying on bed
World Health Organization (WHO) and partners completed a mission to Sahaba and Public Aid hospitals in Gaza city.
Despite the challenges, they successfully delivered 22,000 liters of fuel to both hospitals, transferred 5 critical patients ranging from ages 6 months to 15 years to the Middle Area for future evacuation outside Gaza, and facilitated the return of an emergency medical team from Public Aid Hospital, which had been providing advanced trauma care for almost 4 weeks.
WHO and partners move patients who need more specialized care from one facility to another and hope to arrange for evacuation outside the Strip.
WHO also helps emergency medical teams to reach the health facilities they are supporting, and to leave when their rotations are done.
WHO supplies fuel to hospitals in Gaza, and to partner health facilities, who are running on generators and cannot function without fuel.
