Médecins Sans Frontières - WEBCLIP: Reconstructive Surgery Programme in Gaza (ENG)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF222846

Date taken / Date Recorded 14/01/2018 12:00 AM

Country Palestinian Territories

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Laurie Bonnaud

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Usage Rights (MSF) MSF Publications, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

Video format h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 2m7s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 216.79 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Reportage – Surgical round

Dar Al Salam Hospital, Gaza Strip

MSF has 3 outpatient clinics in the Gaza Strip and runs a reconstructive surgery program in cooperation with the Ministry of Health.
International surgeons are brought in to perform specialist surgery that local medical services are unable to provide.

Eve Bruce, surgeon, MSF (in English)
MSF started the project in Gaza in 2009. But we’ve had 3 conflicts since then, three major wars, so we’re still seeing reconstructive cases from the trauma during the wars. In between the wars we see a lot of domestic injuries, so we treat burns, road traffic accidents, all kinds of trauma

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3,500 surgical procedures since 2009.

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Patients are referred by Ministry of Health services and MSF’s liaison officers and outpatient clinics.

Mohammed Wadi - Nurse Supervisor
Today we have a girl, she’s 13 years old. She was injured in an explosion during the last war in Gaza. Today will be her third operation by an MSF surgical team and we’ll follow up in 6 months’ to do the fourth operation.

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In 2017, there were 6 rounds of surgery.
197 patients had operations.

142 for burns, 28 for trauma, 27 for congenital malformations.

ONSCREEN TEXT - Zakaria suffered burns when a bottle of gas exploded at home.

Mother (in Arabic)
We went to the burns unit for emergency care. Then he was referred to MSF for treatment, to have his dressings changed and for physiotherapy, and where he went on to have plastic surgery. Thank God, he’s so much better now, his movements were so limited before.

Eve Bruce, surgeon, MSF (in English)
It’s always wonderful to come back and see the patients that have been operated on returning to their normal life. That’s what makes it worth it.

Special instructions This video is part of a package that is due for release 21 Feb.
Thanks Laurie Bonnaud, Sara McLeod