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STORY: WHO / GAZA PATIENTS EVACUATION UAE EU
TRT: 9:13
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: : 05 AND 06 NOVEMBER 2024
05 NOVEMBERV2024, EUROPEAN GAZA HOSPITAL, RAFAH
1. Various shots, busses arriving; patients and companions alighting and being escorted inside
2. Various shots, inside the hospital ward of patients arriving and sitting on mattresses on the floor awaiting evacuation
3. SOUNDBITE (ARABIC) Israa Al-Halabi, Mother of patient Abdel Moneim:
“Abed was hit by shrapnel in his right leg that led to its amputation. Abdul Moneim is currently in a difficult health condition with third-degree burns on his body, in his back and in his legs, every forty-eight hours he undergoes to surgeries in order to change on the wounds and the burns in his body. Also, his amputated leg has high percentage of third-degree burns. And by God’s he will be treated.”
4. Various shots, Israa and Abdul playing with a soft toy
5. SOUNDBITE (ARABIC) Israa Al-Halabi, Mother of patient Abdel Moneim:
“We were in Nasser Hospital, we were transferred by the World Health Organization to the European Hospital, and God willing, we will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday 4 am in the morning, by god’s will.”
6. Various shots, showing Abdul’s injuries and amputation.
7. various shots, inside the hospital ward of patients and companions awaiting evacuation
8. Close up, Tahani embracing Jude and talking to her
9. Med shot, Jude sitting alone and smiling
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tahani Al-Omrain, mother of patient Jude Abdullah Yousef Al-Omrain:
“My daughter has blood cancer. She was receiving treatment before the war. The war stopped her treatment for a year. I am suffering in Gaza.”
11. Med shot, Jude sitting and talking to two girls
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tahani Al-Omrain, mother of patient Jude Abdullah Yousef Al-Omrain:
“Tomorrow, by God’s will, we will head to Kerem Shalom crossing, and then travel abroad for treatment.”
13. Med shot, Khitam stoking Ali’s hair and kissing him
14. Close up, Khitam stoking Ali’s hair
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khitam Darwish, mother of Ali Mukhlis Darwish:
“Ali Darwish suffers from an eye injury and hemiplegia. He has a broken back and a broken leg. He has burns and ulcers on his back. He also has a nerve tension. Before the war, this child was an autistic child. He had hyperactivity.”
16. Med shot, Ali lying on his back and smiling
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khitam Darwish, mother of Ali Mukhlis Darwish:
“First of all, thanks to the World Health Organization, today we are here in order to get ready to travel abroad to continue his treatment.”
18. Wide shot, showing rows of patients and companions sitting outside with WHO team in the background
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, WHO Trauma surgeon & Emergency officer, WHO:
“Today is the 5th of November 2024, and we are at the European Gaza Hospital. Behind me, WHO has prepared a hospital ward to secure proper care for patients and caregivers before their medical evacuation from Gaza Strip outside to United Arab Emirates and Romania. The World Health Organization is supporting medical evacuation of people in need so that they continue their care outside of the Gaza Strip.”
20. Various shots, showing rows of patients and companions sitting outside during a WHO briefing on the upcoming evacuation
21. Med shot, Awni and Yousef on his knee
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Awni Bakr, the father of the child Yousef Awni Abu Bakr:
“My son is ten years old and suffers from kidney failure and atrophy in both kidneys, grade five. The World Health Organization contacted us about a week ago regarding my son, and they evacuated us from northern Gaza Strip and transferred us to Al-Nasser Medical Complex for a week. We are currently in the European hospital getting ready for the treatment trip. We are heading to Kerem Shalom crossing and then departure to the Emirates.”
23. Various shots, ambulances and busses, with patients and companions’ paperwork being checked before boarding
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative, occupied Palestinian territory:
“Today, we will be medevacing 228 people, of which 88 critical patients, 82 of them will go to the UAE with their companions and their loved ones and six critical patients will go to Romania. The patients are a mix of trauma patients, but also chronic diseases. We also medevac a lot of cancer patients. First of all, a big thanks to the UAE and Romania, but also a big thanks to our partners the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and CADUS.”
06 NOVEMBER 2024, EUROPEAN GAZA HOSPITAL, RAFAH
25. Various shots, the evacuation convoy of busses and ambulances leaving the hospital towards the Kerem Shalom crossing
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative, occupied Palestinian territory:
“WHO estimates that between 12 and 14,000 critical patients should be medevaced outside Gaza to get the right treatment and care they deserve. Before the Rafah crossing was closed on 6th of May, roughly 4700 patients WHO facilitated with partners to cross into Egypt mainly and from Egypt to some other countries.”
27. Med shot, an ambulance driving away from the hospital.
06 NOVEMBER 2024, KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, GAZA
28. Med shot, patients and companions walking towards a bus for onwards travel in Israel
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Audrey Crawford, Field Expert, ECHO- Emergency response coordination center:
“We are here at Kerem Shalom. The first patients are coming out of Gaza this morning, they're going to be transported to Romania. The European Union is supporting the mechanism. There are more than 12,000 of the patients that need medical attention and the EU will be continuing to support.”
30. Med shot, patients and companions boarding a bus
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Shannon Barkley, Health System Team Lead, WHO occupied Palestinian territory:
“The process of getting to this point is, unfortunately, too long and too restrictive to allow all the patients who need medical evacuation to access that right now. So, patients begin with a referral from their treating physician, and those referrals are reviewed by a medical evacuation committee at the Ministry of Health. Those… the patients that are validated in need of medical evacuation, are then submitted for approvals by Israeli authorities for security screening, and then ultimately are approved by receiving member states of the World Health Organization.”
32. Med shot, a patients in a wheelchair being assisted on to the bus
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners today (06 Nov) evacuated 229 patients and companions from Gaza to Romania and United Arab Emirates (UAE) in collaboration with the Government of UAE and Romania and the European Union.
Patients included those with autoimmune diseases, blood diseases, cancer, kidneys conditions, and trauma injuries.
84 patients will be heading to United Arab Emirates and 6 to Romania for treatment.
