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STORY: WHO / WEST BANK HEALTH CENTERS
TRT: 05:46
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 – 04 JULY 2024, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
02 JULY 2024, BETHLEHEM PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
1. Various shots, hospital grounds and main entrance
2. Various shots, Regional Director (RD) Dr Hanan Balkhy interacting with health workers and patients
02 JULY 2024, PALESTINIAN NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTRE, JENIN, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
3. Various shots, RD and WHO Representative (WR) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, interacting with health workers and drug rehabilitation patients
04 JULY 2024, JENIN HOSPITAL, JENIN, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
4. Various shots, RD and WHO colleagues in discussion with health workers at the Jenin Hospital
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“They're doing a lot of great work in assisting children, specifically in this world, who need significant rehabilitation. Doing the top quality of services when it comes to speech therapy, supporting patients who have different types of cerebral palsy, different spectrums of autism and disability diseases. They are recovering, we've seen cases of patients who have progressed very well in their treatment.”
04 JULY 2024, UNRWA HEALTH CENTRE, JENIN, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
6. Various shots, RD and WHO colleagues talking to UNRWA health workers, being shown various damage to the building and equipment
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Not only is health care access and provision an extreme challenge. What we see here right now is the devastation of at least 70 incursions that have taken place since October, leading to significant destruction of the environment.”
04 JULY 2024, JENIN HOSPITAL, JENIN, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
8. Various shots, RD being show around the neonatal ward by health workers at the Jenin Hospital
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, Representative, Occupied Palestinian Territory, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We're here in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank. And unfortunately, since October last year, we've seen an increasing number of hostilities all over. This has resulted, for example, in more than 480 attacks on health care. Health care always needs to be protected.”
04 JULY 2024, JENIN HOSPITAL, JENIN, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
10. Various shots, RD talking to patients at the Jenin Hospital
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Right now, I'm in Jenin, a camp that's hosting 24,000 refugees. And I'm actually at the centre of the UNRWA offices, listening to the work that they're doing on the ground in supporting the patients through the primary health clinic that they have, which has been quite advanced and has been of great value to the refugees on the camp. However, the amount of destruction and obstruction that has been taking place in providing the services and providing the commodities, the destruction that has taken place to the equipment that are available for the health workers has put the health workers in significant distress and also injuries to the health workers themselves and some of the patients who are attending this clinic.”
04 JULY 2024, PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT SOCIETY HEALTH CENTRE, JENIN, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
12. Various shots, WHO team arriving at the health centre and talking to health workers
13. Various shots, RD interacting with young patients, talking to health workers
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr Hanan Balkhy, visited the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) to review the health situation firsthand.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“They're doing a lot of great work in assisting children, specifically in this world, who need significant rehabilitation. Doing the top quality of services when it comes to speech therapy, supporting patients who have different types of cerebral palsy, different spectrums of autism and disability diseases. They are recovering, we've seen cases of patients who have progressed very well in their treatment.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Not only is health care access and provision an extreme challenge. What we see here right now is the devastation of at least 70 incursions that have taken place since October, leading to significant destruction of the environment.”
Balkhy, visited East Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza from 30 June to 10 July where she met with health officials, health partners, donors, WHO staff, and health workers and patients to discuss challenges, and find ways to strengthen coordination for the health response.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, Representative, Occupied Palestinian Territory, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We're here in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank. And unfortunately, since October last year, we've seen an increasing number of hostilities all over. This has resulted, for example, in more than 480 attacks on health care. Health care always needs to be protected.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Right now, I'm in Jenin, a camp that's hosting 24,000 refugees. And I'm actually at the centre of the UNRWA offices, listening to the work that they're doing on the ground in supporting the patients through the primary health clinic that they have, which has been quite advanced and has been of great value to the refugees on the camp. However, the amount of destruction and obstruction that has been taking place in providing the services and providing the commodities, the destruction that has taken place to the equipment that are available for the health workers has put the health workers in significant distress and also injuries to the health workers themselves and some of the patients who are attending this clinic.”
Key areas of focus were advocating for the protection of health care, scaling up health worker capacities and the medical supply chain, and addressing funding shortages affecting the health response.
