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Gaza City – 14 April 2025
1. Various of Mohamed Attiya’s son pulling him on a wheelchair through ruined streets to Shifa hospital
2. Various of Attiya’s son entering the dialysis unit, and helping him out of the wheelchair
3. Various of nurse attaching dialysis machine to Attiya’s arm
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Ghazi al-Yazigi, head of the Nephrology and Dialysis department at the Shifa hospital:
"The patient is supposed to be on dialysis for three sessions per week, each lasting four hours, meaning the total average per week is 12 hours. However, because of the increase in the number of patients and the shortage of available devices, we are doing two sessions instead of three, and three hours instead of four hours. This of course leads to complications such as increased levels of toxins, fluid accumulation in the lungs and heart, and high levels of potassium, which may lead to death."
5. Various of nurse attaching dialysis machine to Attiya’s arm
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Ghazi al-Yazigi, head of the Nephrology and Dialysis department at the Shifa hospital:
"Previously, we had 1,100 dialysis patients, and now we are talking about 683, with a mortality rate of 42 percent among dialysis patients. Another complication that has affected these patients is the lack of potable water. The water available now is polluted and has a high salt content, which negatively impacts the lives of patients."
7. Various of Mohamed Kamel, a kidney failure patient attached to dialysis machine
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Kamel, a kidney failure patient:
"Now I have been on dialysis for three months. Here, people are in turns, and there is no one to help. The cost of the car that we take from the Sabra neighborhood to here is 60 shekels for a round trip and 60 for a return trip. No one pays for us, and we are tired of borrowing from people. The situation is very bad."
9. Various of Fatima Radwan, a kidney failure patient attaching to dialysis machine
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Radwan, a kidney failure patient:
"It is a struggle for us to get here and a struggle to drink clean and sterilized water. As a dialysis patient, it is very difficult to find anything available for you. From food, drinks, fruits and good vegetables, we do not find anything that could make our lives easier. Everything has become difficult here."
11. Various of destroyed kidney dialysis machines
12. Various of Attiya’s son pushing him on a wheelchair through ruined streets back to his tent
13. Various of Attiya sitting on his bed inside tent drinking water
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Attiya, a kidney failure patient:
"In the past, we used to do dialysis three times a week, for four full hours. It was forbidden to do less than four hours. In the war, we were forced to do dialysis for two hours, and sometimes for an hour and a half. Just what would get you from death to life, that is, just enough to enable you to breathe until the next time."
15. Various of Attiya’s son filling bottles with water
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Attiya, a kidney failure patient:
"The suffering of filtered or healthy water. We, as kidney failure patients, are supposed to drink pure mineral water, but unfortunately, very unfortunately, it is not available, and if it is found in the markets, it is at high prices. We cannot buy it."
17. Various of Attiya sitting on his bed, holding a bottle of water inside tent
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Attiya, a kidney failure patient:
19. Various of Attiya sitting on wheelchair outside of his tent
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