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STORY: WHO / LEBANON HEALTH CARE WORKERS
TRT: 04:01
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 DECEMBER 2024, TURKISH HOSPITAL, SAIDA, LEBANON
1. Various shots, hospital signage
2. Various shots, health workers performing an operation
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Ziarra, Plastic surgeon, Interburns:
“We have seen a lot of injured people. There's a lot of variety of wounds that have a lot of shrapnel. And many cases have like deep shrapnel that prevent the wound from healing, closing, even if we close it, it will be open again because of the foreign bodies inside the body.”
4. Various shots, health workers performing an operation
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sian Falder, Burns and plastic surgeon, Interburns:
“There have been a lot of explosions so there are a lot of people coming in with embedded shrapnel, and the wounds that come from that. So, we saw a gentleman yesterday, for example, who was having trouble using his hand and although his wounds had healed up, he'd got embedded shrapnel, from the blasts. We're seeing quite a few people who, normally the sort of patients that you would see from earthquakes. So they're buried under rubble so because there's been so many buildings that have collapsed and been bombed, we're seeing a lot of complex, leg and arm trauma from patients who've been been able to be extracted from those situations.”
6. Various shots, health workers performing an operation
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sian Falder, Burns and plastic surgeon, Interburns:
“We can predict pretty well that there's going to be an increasing number of people coming forward with wounds that haven't been either adequately treated in the first place or which have broken down due to the nature of the wounds themselves and the conditions that we find ourselves in. I think we'll be looking at reconstruction being needed for probably years, certainly the next six months are going to see a lot of complicated wounds, particularly arms and legs, that require specialist intervention.”
8. Various shots, health workers performing an operation
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Alchaikh Hassan, Regional Trauma Technical Officer, WHO:
“For the long term, I think we need to focus on the physical rehabilitation for these people. How, can we maybe strengthen the capacity here in Lebanon to use prosthetics in the future, the artificial limbs.”
10. Med shot, health worker in operating theatre
11. SOUNDUP (English):
Health worker 1: Are there any key concerns for referring?
Health worker 2: No.
Health worker 1: No? Thank you!
Health worker 2: Thank you very much.
Health worker 3: Thank you.
Health worker 4: Thank you.
Health worker 5: Procedure done!
The current need for specialist interventions and skills to treat complicated war injuries after a ceasefire took hold on 27 November, is enormous. WHO is currently training health workers on surgical skills in conflict settings, and as an extension of trauma care in Lebanese hospitals, a number of international Emergency Medical Teams are providing treatment to thousands of people with shrapnel, burns and blast wounds.
