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The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners visited Al-Shifa Hospital, where plans to restore emergency care are being implemented. Currently, the hospital’s hemodialysis department remains functional, catering to 60 patients from Gaza city and north Gaza. WHO
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STORY: WHO / GAZA AL SHIFA HOSPITAL
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SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 JULY 2024, AL-SHIFA MEDICAL COMPLEX, NORTH GAZA, PALESTINE

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1. Various shots, WHO team arriving at hospital grounds, greeting local colleagues and health workers and walking past heavily damaged buildings and infrastructure
2. Various shots, inside the dialysis department, showing the destruction of the department, destroyed equipment, burnt out rooms, fire damage and debris on the floor
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Talal Ali Khan, Consultant Nephrologist, Emergency Medical Team, Palestinian American Medical Association:
“I'm here at Shifa Hospital. As you know, this is the largest hospital in whole Gaza Strip. And we are here in the dialysis unit to assess the damage that happened during the war. So, as you can see, this entire dialysis unit, it was a huge dialysis unit. It's almost completely destroyed. And you can see the machines, you can see how the floor looks. Everything is gone. And previously before the war, this dialysis unit was supporting almost 450 patients and it had more than 60 machines and now this is all ruins. You can see as we walk around the second room for the dialysis, it is completely destroyed. Burned. There is nothing workable here. And you can smell you know, the smoke and the fire. And if you go across, you see all the other destructed rooms you can see on my left, actually on my right, you can see here all the machines which are out, that's all gone, nothing is available here. You see on the, on this side. And if we move further down here this is like completely destroyed. And this dialysis unit was serving almost 450 patients, which is a huge number, and there were many dialysis nurses, staff, doctors, physicians there who were working.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Talal Ali Khan, Consultant Nephrologist, Emergency Medical Team, Palestinian American Medical Association:
“This is the rehabilitated dialysis unit that has been built, cleaned. You know, it was almost in exactly the same situation and the people here have brought the machines back in working order. Now this unit is trying to support 60 patients. They are running, trying to run the shifts before sunset so that people can, patients can go back to their homes. We have mostly two potassium and 1.75 calcium dialysis available here. And this whole unit is trying to support the patients, which is dialysis, which is a life-saving treatment.”
5. Various shots, newly renovated and reopened dialysis unit
6. Various shots, newly renovated outpatient department
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Marwaan Abu Saadah, Acting Director, Al-Shifa Medical Complex:
“WHO has taken a look at this department and the renovation work in it, and by God’s will, within two weeks from now, the department will be ready to receive patients. Also, they have been briefed on the necessaries needed from beds to consumables, to necessary medical devices that are required for the medical work. They were also informed on our need for medical staff, as the existing medical staff in northern Gaza, and especially in Gaza Governorate are few in numbers. We have also emphasized our need for emergency doctors, intensive care doctors, general surgery surgeons, vascular surgery, and orthopaedic surgeries, and we emphasized our necessary need for the tools and requirements of the orthopaedic department, especially the electric power drills.”
8. Various shots, WHO team in discussion with local health workers and hospital management
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, Trauma Surgeon and Emergency Officer, World Health Organization (WHO):
“End of March 2024, Shifa Hospital was burnt and destroyed to the ground. Today we are here in the old outpatient department where a local medical initiative is taking place to revive the treating facility. Shifa Hospital is an emblematic hospital for the entire Gaza Strip, and WHO is committed to support it to become a centre for the support of the injured and the wounded.”
10. Wide shot, WHO team walking past a devastated building on the complex

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners on Monday (22 Jul) visited Al-Shifa Hospital, where plans to restore emergency care are being implemented.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Talal Ali Khan, Consultant Nephrologist, Emergency Medical Team, Palestinian American Medical Association:
“I'm here at Shifa Hospital. As you know, this is the largest hospital in whole Gaza Strip. And we are here in the dialysis unit to assess the damage that happened during the war. So, as you can see, this entire dialysis unit, it was a huge dialysis unit. It's almost completely destroyed. And you can see the machines, you can see how the floor looks. Everything is gone. And previously before the war, this dialysis unit was supporting almost 450 patients and it had more than 60 machines and now this is all ruins. You can see as we walk around the second room for the dialysis, it is completely destroyed. Burned. There is nothing workable here. And you can smell you know, the smoke and the fire. And if you go across, you see all the other destructed rooms you can see on my left, actually on my right, you can see here all the machines which are out, that's all gone, nothing is available here. You see on the, on this side. And if we move further down here this is like completely destroyed. And this dialysis unit was serving almost 450 patients, which is a huge number, and there were many dialysis nurses, staff, doctors, physicians there who were working.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Talal Ali Khan, Consultant Nephrologist, Emergency Medical Team, Palestinian American Medical Association:
“This is the rehabilitated dialysis unit that has been built, cleaned. You know, it was almost in exactly the same situation and the people here have brought the machines back in working order. Now this unit is trying to support 60 patients. They are running, trying to run the shifts before sunset so that people can, patients can go back to their homes. We have mostly two potassium and 1.75 calcium dialysis available here. And this whole unit is trying to support the patients, which is dialysis, which is a life-saving treatment.”

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Marwaan Abu Saadah, Acting Director, Al-Shifa Medical Complex:
“WHO has taken a look at this department and the renovation work in it, and by God’s will, within two weeks from now, the department will be ready to receive patients. Also, they have been briefed on the necessaries needed from beds to consumables, to necessary medical devices that are required for the medical work. They were also informed on our need for medical staff, as the existing medical staff in northern Gaza, and especially in Gaza Governorate are few in numbers. We have also emphasized our need for emergency doctors, intensive care doctors, general surgery surgeons, vascular surgery, and orthopaedic surgeries, and we emphasized our necessary need for the tools and requirements of the orthopaedic department, especially the electric power drills.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, Trauma Surgeon and Emergency Officer, World Health Organization (WHO):
“End of March 2024, Shifa Hospital was burnt and destroyed to the ground. Today we are here in the old outpatient department where a local medical initiative is taking place to revive the treating facility. Shifa Hospital is an emblematic hospital for the entire Gaza Strip, and WHO is committed to support it to become a centre for the support of the injured and the wounded.”

Currently, the hospital’s hemodialysis department remains functional, catering to 60 patients from Gaza city and north Gaza.

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