(1 Feb 2025)
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Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo – 1 February 2025
1. Various of doctors at the Kyeshero Hospital in Goma treating a wounded patient
2. Prince Mungazi, who was wounded in the fighting as M23 took over Goma, is carried on a healthcare professional’s back at the hospital
3. Various of Mungazi being treated by a doctor
4. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Prince Mungazi, wounded resident:
“The soldiers asked me for money and I told them I had nothing. Then they fired bullets. One that hit me and another missed. Then the neighbours fled.”
5. Various of Kyeshero Hospital Doctor Horace Kashema treating a patient
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Horace Kashema, Doctor:
“We are so overwhelmed, but we continue to work and we hope that with the situation having calmed down a bit, maybe that will help us to work. But our supplies will run out soon. We don’t have enough. "
7. Various of Kashema inspecting a dressing of a patient with a gunshot wound to his stomach
8. Various of patients waiting to receive treatment
9. Patrick Bagamuhunda sits on a bed with leg in cast
10. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Patrick Bagamuhunda, wounded resident:
“This is the first time I’m experiencing this. This is the first time that I’ve experienced war in Goma. This war has caused a lot of damage, but at least we are still breathing. There are a lot of people who have been disabled and so many people have died, and we don’t know how far this war will go.”
11. Wounded patients recovering in bed
12. Dr. Kashema speaks with Joseph Sangara, a doctor and MSF project coordinator
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Joseph Sangara, Doctor & MSF project coordinator:
“In similar situations, we know that between 10 and 20 percent of cases are critical cases. These are complicated cases, and these are the cases that we are seeing. There are injuries to the skull, to the thorax. This is difficult to manage.”
14. People leave hospital field tents
15. Healthcare workers talk amongst themselves
16. A wounded man stands outside a tent on his phone
STORYLINE:
At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels who captured the city in a major escalation of a decadelong conflict, Congolese authorities said Saturday.
The rebels’ advance into other areas was slowed by a weakened military that recovered some villages from them.
Authorities confirmed 773 bodies and 2,880 injured persons in Goma’s morgues and hospitals, Congolese government spokesman Patrick Muyaya told a briefing in the capital, Kinshasa, adding that the death toll could be higher.
Nearly a week after Rwanda-backed rebels took over the eastern Congolese city of Goma, the city’s hospitals were overwhelmed with those wounded in the fighting.
After capturing several key towns in the vicinity in January, the rebels, known as M23, arrived in Goma last Sunday and claimed control of the city early Monday.
An assessment by the WHO and its partners put the death toll at over 700 and the number of wounded at 2,800 in and around Goma last week.
At Kyeshero Hospital, beds were full of patients with traumatic injuries. Prince Mungazi had a bullet wound to the leg and had to be carried by healthcare workers around the wards.
“The soldiers asked me for money and I told them I had nothing. Then they fired bullets. One that hit me and another missed,” he said, not clarifying who the soldiers were fighting for.
For now, food and medical supplies have little means to arrive in Goma.
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