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STORY: WHO / GAZA FIELD HOSPITALS
TRT: 05:57
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
09 JULY 2024, RAFAH, NEAR KAREM SHALOM CROSSING, GAZA STRIP
1. Various travel shots, streets, destruction
09 JULY 2024, IMC FIELD HOSPITAL, DIER BALAH, GAZA STRIP
2. Various shots, WHO convoy arriving at IMC Field Hospital
3. Various shots, Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean and Muhannad Hadi, UN Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident / Humanitarian Coordinator, and WHO colleagues in conversation with IMC health workers and patients
4. UPSOUND (English) Dr Javed Ali, Director of Emergency Response, International Medical Corps (IMT):
“The level of support that we have received from WHO and particularly from EMTC, has been phenomenal. It has been absolutely phenomenal.”
5. UPSOUND (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“And that's the only way to work in this situation, because I think, as you said, you haven't seen it, but I've been speaking to other I don't know if you know Doctor Abu Sieta (UNRWA), was he here?”
6. UPSOUND (English) Dr Javed Ali, Director of Emergency Response, International Medical Corps (IMT):
“No, no, I used to work with him in MSF.”
7. UPSOUND (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Yeah, the traumas that he was describing and the level of depth and complexity he's never seen before.”
09 JULY 2024, IMC FIELD HOSPITAL, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP
8. Med shot, external fixators secured to patients left leg
9. UPSOUND (Arabic) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“And what happened to your right knee?”
10. UPSOUND (Arabic) patient:
“My left knee was wide open like a notebook, and also there are fractures right under, and above my knee.”
11. UPSOUND (Arabic) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“So, you had a wide-open knee wound, and fractures right under, and above your knee, but you recovered from them? And you also had different wounds right here? Hope you get well soon. They also told you about having some burns as well?”
12. UPSOUND (Arabic) patient:
“Burns yes and amputation too.”
13. UPSOUND (Arabic) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Get well soon.”
09 JULY 2024, IMC FIELD HOSPITAL, DIER BALAH, GAZA STRIP
14. Various shots, WHO colleagues in conversation with IMC health workers
15. UPSOUND (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“And this is a mobile X-ray or not?”
16. UPSOUND (English) Dr Javed Ali, Director of Emergency Response, International Medical Corps (IMT):
“It’s a mobile x-ray with a CR (Computed Radiography) system so normally when we take an x-ray, we have tables which are connected to the x-ray machine so the doctors can view it or the patients normally comes and takes a picture of the x-ray.”
17. UPSOUND (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“And then…You find ways.”
18. UPSOUND (Arabic) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“How many times did you move? Moved from place to place?”
19. UPSOUND (Arabic) patient’s mother:
“We were in Rafah, then they brought us here, they also got us passports. By god’s will things are going to be fine. Actually, were brought here by the WHO, they are the ones that brought us here.”
20. Various shots, girl asleep on hospital bed
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, Representative in oPt, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The story of International Medical Corps is actually a reflection about the key health issues in Gaza. International Medical Corps started a field hospital in Khan Younis. They were told to move because there would be military activities. They moved to Rafah Mawasi area. Again, the second time they had to move as well because of imminent military activities around the hospital. Now they have established a field hospital in Deir Balah, a very well-functioning field hospital. WHO, we have worked with IMC from the start, we are constantly supporting them with essential medical supplies and equipment.”
09 JULY 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP
22. Driving shot, destruction
09 JULY 2024, IMC FIELD HOSPITAL, DIER BALAH, GAZA STRIP
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This is been one of the visits that has been a crucial eye opener on the devastation effect on the people, the complexities of the injuries that we're seeing here. Right behind me, I have a neonatal level two care area. Before that, I was at an orthopedic unit where there was a very complex external fixation of a traumatized complex fractures of the lower limbs of a middle-aged man. I really hope that the situation becomes calmer soon, and that peace prevails soon, and we can start taking care of our patients in the most dignified and proper way for the betterment of themselves, their family, and the community of the Gaza people. Thank you.”
09 JULY 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP
24. Driving shot, destruction
World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Hanan Balkhy visited East Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza from 30 June to 10 July.
Her goal was to meet with health officials, health partners, donors, WHO staff and health workers and patients to review the health situation firsthand, discuss challenges, and find ways to strengthen coordination for the health response.
Key areas of focus were advocating chain and protection of health care, scaling up health worker capacities and the medical supply chain, and addressing funding shortages affecting the health response.
