Audio Testimony - INT - Story of Noor, a pregnant Woman at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah.

Pascale Coissard Rogeret, MSF's Emergency Coordinator in Gaza, shares stories of pregnant women at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah. She recounts her conversation with Noor, a displaced Palestinian woman from Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, who has just given birth to a little girl and is receiving postpartum care at Al-Emirati Hospital.

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Audio Testimony - EN - Story of Noor, a pregnant Woman at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah.

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Stories of Pregnant Women at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB184291

Date taken / Date Recorded 06/01/2024 12:00 AM

Country Palestinian Territories

Commissioning section MSF-SPAIN

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m27s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1920px 148.42 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Name Card: Pascale Coissard, MSF's Emergency Coordinator in Gaza

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In Gaza,

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MSF supports the Emirati Hospital in Rafah

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with postpartum care, and we are finalizing

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an extension of the maternity

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as the number of deliveries

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has tripled compared to pre-war time.

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This week, I sat down with some of our patients…

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In addition to the exhaustion of childbirth,

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these women are displaced.

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They survive in plastic tents

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that they set up with their families

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as best they can

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in the place they could,

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in a city that is gaining density every day.

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As people continue fleeing the centre of Gaza

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seeking a safer place.

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We are in the middle of the winter.

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Every day is cold, and some are rainy.

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Noor had a little girl, a very pretty one.

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Noor is happy but tired, half asleep, a little pale.

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My colleagues gave her a Hemoglobin test.

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She needs to take some iron

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and vitamin C supplements.

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Her mother-in-law accompanies her.

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She tells me that they come from

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Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip.

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Her house and her street are now pure rubble.

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I ask what the baby girl's name is.

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Noor hasn't decided yet,

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but her mother-in-law

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would like her to be named “Salam”,

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which means peace

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because it has never been more necessary.