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STORY: WHO / GAZA KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL
TRT: 08:50
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 28 OCTOBER 2024, KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL, NORTH GAZA
1. Various shots, WHO convoy arriving, passing destroyed buildings, piles of rubbish outside the hospital entrance, and damaged hospital building
2. Various shots, WHO and mission team talking to health workers
3. Med shot, food supplies being unloaded from an ambulance
4. Wide shot, exterior, hospital building and many people in front of it
5. Various shots, hospital interior, patients, companions, and health workers treating patients
6. UPSOUND (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, Representative, Occupied Palestinian Territory, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The last two weeks we have been four times here, yeah? We will continue to try to bring medical supplies, the fuel, blood, food for staff and patients. And, please, you be as specific as possible towards our colleague. What kind of medications and supplies you need? We'll try to do our level best.”
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Hossam Abu Safiya, Director, Kamal Adwan Hospital:
“Unfortunately, now only one (male) doctor remains with me in Kamal Adwan Hospital, which houses over 145 patients. Today, 20 patients will be evacuated to Al-Shifa Hospital. However, a large number still require surgical intervention, and we urgently need permission to bring in surgical teams to save as many of the remaining injured as possible. The situation is catastrophic in every sense—no water, no medicine, no food. Although some supplies were brought in, they are minimal. We urgently need surgical teams to provide life-saving interventions for the injured patients.”
8. Various shots, WHO convoy team, including CADUS Emergency medical team, and Palestine Red Crescent Society transferring a patient from the hospital to waiting ambulance
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, Representative, Occupied Palestinian Territory, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are here in Kamal Adwan, and we have a number of objectives. First objective is to help transfer at least 21 patients and their companions to Al-Shifa Medical Complex, all critical patients. Secondly, we assisted with getting some critical anaesthesia and surgical supplies in. And thirdly, we bring food and water for patients and staff. This is the fourth mission from WHO over the last two weeks where we try to bring fuel, medical supply, blood and now finally, also food for staff and patients, and of course, transfer critical patients out of Kamal Adwan to Shifa.”
10. Various shots, WHO convoy team, including CADUS Emergency medical team, and Palestine Red Crescent Society transferring patients from the hospital to waiting ambulances
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, Trauma Surgeon and Emergency officer, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Patients that will be moved from Kamal Adwan today to Shifa hospital are most of them trauma patients. Blast injuries, burn injuries, crush injuries. Some of them already treated and stabilized, some others needing further stabilization. What is critical is that we secure their continuum of care, and this is what WHO is securing today.”
12. Med shot, WHO convoy departing Kamal Adwan Hospital
13. Various shots, WHO convoy arriving, ambulances being directed, before patients being assisted from the ambulances and escorted into Shifa’s emergency department
14. Various shots, interior, emergency department showing patients on stretchers and beds, companions by their sides, and health workers examining patients
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Marwan Abu Saada, Director, Al-Shifa Medical Complex:
“These new patients are now being dealt with and prepared to be received inside the corridors of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, and most likely some of them will be transferred to hospitals such as Al-Helou Hospital or other hospitals inside the Gaza Strip if they need any procedure or medical intervention that is not currently available inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex.”
16. Various shots, interior, emergency department showing medical supplies and patients arriving, patients on stretchers and beds, and companions by their sides
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdelnasir Soboh, Health Emergency and Coordination Officer for Gaza, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This emergency room has been rehabilitated or made as an emergency room. The place we are standing in used to be an outpatient department. But after the destruction of Shifa Hospital, some partners did rehabilitate the outpatient department and they have designed it to be an emergency room that includes two operating theatres and a place for a crash (ie, many patients at once), or for ICU for about four beds.”
18. Various shots, interior, emergency department showing patients on stretchers and beds with companions by their sides and health workers examining patients
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mother of Ibn Adham and Fadi:
“We very much thank the World Health Organization for getting us out of Jabalia (Kamal Adwan Hospital), and moving us here to Al-Shifa Hospital , but am sincerely hoping that my children’s treatment to be continued outside of the Gaza Strip, because as you know the entire Gaza Strip is currently lacking the ability to medically treat people; the situation is extremely bad; I am again urging you, and anyone who can help to step up, and provide any help possible, and stand beside me and my children.”
20. Wide shot, busy Emergency Department.
On Monday, (28 Oct) a World Health Organization (WHO) team reached Kamal Adwan Hospital in North Gaza for the fourth time in two weeks.
The mission transferred 23 patients and 21 caregivers and from Kamal Adwan to Shifa Hospital. The mission also delivered antibiotics, anaesthesia medications, surgical and anaesthetic supplies for an estimated 1000 interventions. Some food for patients was also delivered.
