Médecins Sans Frontières - WALK & TALK: MSF Clinic in Gaza City. March 2019 (ENG)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF264902

Date taken / Date Recorded 05/03/2019 12:00 AM

Country Palestinian Territories

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Simon Rolin

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Duration 3m43s

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Additional Information / Shotlist MSF CLINIC
GAZA CITY

Hello, I'm Dr. Ahmed Abu Warda. I work at the MSF Gaza Clinic. Let's go and see the clinic.

WALK & TALK
MSF’s clinic in Gaza City
filmed in February 2019

Here we have the waiting area. We have two different waiting areas for the males and females. We’ve increased our capacity in the clinic. We’ve increased the human resources and surgical programs to adapt and. To adjust to this massive increase of patients.
Let's go and see around the clinic.

SLATE
More than 4,000 patients shot during the protests have been admitted to the MSF clinics in Gaza since 30 March 2018

Here in this room we do the dressings for trauma patients, for the wounded patients from the Great March of Return. We change dressings to prevent infection and to reduce the consequences that patients will have. Because some of them have complex wounds, they need many plastic surgeries to close their wounds.

SLATE
110,342 dressing sessions were carried out by MSF teams between April 2018 and February 2019

We have here Dr. Zhi, he's the anesthesiologist. He's helping us with pain management for the wounded patients.
We have a lot of patients suffering from severe pain, so we are trying to improve this situation and to relieve the pain a little bit by combining the pain management methods.
Now we will go to the physiotherapy department. We’ve had a massive increase of patients from the Great March of Return, so we needed a bigger physiotherapy department to deal with all the trauma patients and hand injuries.
Here in the physiotherapy department every patient has a special situation. Those with external fixators are different from other patients. The goal of the physiotherapy is to preserve their joints, to preserve the muscle power that they have, trying to preserve their limbs.
As we see here, we have a patient with a gunshot wound in his right thigh and he has an external fixator. He’s having a physiotherapy session here, trying to mobilize the joint and to preserve the function of the joints.

SLATE
MSF physiotherapy teams have carried out over 72,000 sessions for patients injured in the protests

Some days of the week, we give orthopedic consultations in the clinic with orthopedic surgeons. We do several orthopedic consultations for trauma patients because half of them have fractures. Some may need many surgeries to try to preserve their limb. Some will recover but others may in the end need to be amputated.
So, we try to help identify which patients will need surgery, which patients are able to walk again, to give specific instructions to the physiotherapists about how to deal with those patients.
As we saw here, a lot of changes have been going on in the clinics and in the surgery programs, because of the massive increase of patients. So now, MSF has five clinics in Gaza, two inpatient departments and three surgical programs. All are trying to adapt and adjust to this massive increase of patients who really need our care. Thank you.

END SLATE
MSF HAS CARRIED OUT AROUND 3,000 SURGERIES ON MORE THAN 1,700 PATIENTS INJURED IN PROTESTS SINCE 30 MARCH 2018

MAP
WAITING ROOM – ORTHOPEDIC CONSULTATIONS – TRAUMA PATIENTS – NURSING CARE - PHYSIOTHERAPY