(26 Aug 2024)
++CLIENTS NOTE: SCRIPT WAS UPDATED AT 18:00 GMT TO SAY THAT THE TEAM IS STILL WAITING FOR APPROVALS TO ENTER GAZA++
JORDAN GAZA AMPUTEES
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amman, Jordan – 26 August 2024
1. Various of Yazan Harazin, a boy from Gaza who was severely injured in an Israeli airstrike, walking with a prosthetic limbs
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yazan Harazin, an injured boy from Shujaiya district, Gaza City:
"The site of my injury was in the Nuseirat neighborhood on November 19. I was treated at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (in Gaza) and later came to Jordan, where we stayed at the Medical City. I underwent surgeries, was fitted with prosthetic limbs and started to walk."
3. Yazan walking
4. Various of Yazan’s prosthetic limbs
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Brig. Gen. Mustafa al-Hiyari, Jordanian Armed Forces media director:
"We will discuss this project in general, which focuses on fitting thousands of prosthetic limbs for families (in Gaza). Medical estimates indicate that over 14,000 people have been injured and lost one or more limbs. Our project is distinguished not only by the large number (of prosthetics provided) but also by its speed, as specialists will declare, a prosthetic limb would be installed in less than an hour."
6. Various of mobile amputee support units
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Brig. Gen. Mustafa al-Hiyari, Jordanian Armed Forces media director:
"Those who cannot reach the hospital, the equipped vans will go to them. God Willing, in a later stage, we will expand towards the north. The work will be done through our field hospital in Tal al-Hawa. In a third stage, if we didn’t find partners, God Willing, we will head towards them to expand the treatment coverage within this initiative."
8. Various of mobile amputee support vans
9. Man with a prosthetic leg in a wheelchair outside the National Amputee Rehabilitation Center
10. National Center for Amputee Rehabilitation
STORYLINE:
Fifteen-year-old Yazan Harazin, who was severely injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, walked with his newly fitted prosthetic limbs in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Monday.
Displaced from his home in Shujaiya, Yazan was one of the first beneficiaries of an initiative by the Jordanian Army’s medical team to help injured Palestinians in Gaza.
"I underwent surgeries, was fitted with prosthetic limbs and started to walk," Yazan said.
He lost his right leg below the knee, left leg above the knee, and his right arm below the elbow.
On Monday, Jordan announced that a medical team from the Jordanian Army Royal Medical Services is ready to head to Gaza.
However, it said the team is still waiting for the procedures to be completed and obtain the necessary approvals to enter the besieged territory.
The Royal Medical Services has partnered with two companies that provide cutting-edge technology, allowing for the fitting of functional prosthetic limbs in just one hour, according to army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mustafa al-Hiyari.
al-Hiyari said that two mobile clinics, fully equipped with the necessary equipment to fit new prosthetic limbs, will join the specialized medical team at the Jordanian military field hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.
"In a later stage, we will expand towards the north. The work will be done through our field hospital in Tal al-Hawa," al-Hiyari said.
They will be documented in electronic medical records for ongoing remote consultations and follow-up care, the team said.
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