Following The Journey of One Palestinian Seeking Medical Care In Gaza
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🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Palestinians can try to get medical treatment both in and outside of Gaza, but need a travel permit to choose the latter. And while Israel grants thousands of travel permits a year, the timeline for securing one can be long. Some doctors have also fled Gaza. All of these factors can pose dangerous delays for vital treatment.
NPR Jerusalem Correspondent Daniel Estrin followed one patient's difficult journey to get heart surgery.
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| 0:00.0 | Yusuf Alcourt is Palestinian and has been called one of the most famous audio technicians in Gaza. |
| 0:07.0 | Takham Fassot, mixer. |
| 0:09.0 | Lil Masajat, Wal-Madhars. |
| 0:12.0 | He's fixes the mixers, street vendors, microphones, mosques, microphones. |
| 0:18.0 | That's Cordsson, Ibrahim. Ibrahim says his dad studied electrical engineering in Germany. |
| 0:23.0 | Then he returned home to a career fixing sound systems in Gaza. |
| 0:27.0 | Sound systems like the mosque loudspeakers you're hearing right now. |
| 0:34.0 | Cord was a technician for 30 years before retiring. |
| 0:37.0 | He trained his sons to be audio engineers. |
| 0:39.0 | And in his son Ibrahim's workshop, Cord had his first heart attack in 2020. |
| 0:45.0 | Sardin, you've got a lot of work to do. |
| 0:48.0 | You've got a lot of work to do. |
| 0:51.0 | You've got a lot of work to do. |
| 0:53.0 | Suddenly, one day from nowhere, we just started to feel the chord you get that. |
| 0:59.0 | He survived, but a doctor said he'd need heart surgery. |
| 1:02.0 | Cord put it off due to fears of COVID, but when his condition worsened, |
| 1:07.0 | Cord's sons rushed him back to Gaza's Shifa hospital. |
| 1:11.0 | How the ishi daruri? |
| 1:13.0 | Daruri jittan. |
| 1:14.0 | The surgery is very urgent, Ibrahim said. |
| 1:17.0 | But they couldn't find many doctors who could help. |
| 1:19.0 | And his family was struggling to get Israeli permission to travel to a hospital in the West Bank. |
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