What Next - Inside a Gaza Hospital
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pediatrician Dr. Seema Jilani’s work has taken her from Sudan to Afghanistan. Last month, she was in Gaza for two weeks, where she worked tending to the wounded in the besieged Al-Aqsa Hospital.
Guest: Dr. Seema Jilani, senior technical adviser at the International Rescue Committee
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| 0:20.0 | Heads up here at the top. |
| 0:21.0 | Today's show is a conversation about what it's like in a hospital in |
| 0:25.3 | Gaza. The conversation is pretty raw, but it's also really important. I hope you can keep |
| 0:31.5 | listening. Seema Jalani has a system when she travels for work. She keeps voice memos on everything she sees. |
| 0:47.0 | Seem as a doctor, a pediatrician. |
| 0:49.0 | She is used to taking a lot of notes by hand. |
| 0:53.1 | But her job takes her to conflict zones. |
| 0:55.3 | She works for the International Rescue Committee. |
| 0:58.5 | At a certain point, she realized talking |
| 1:01.1 | into her phone was just easier. |
| 1:03.4 | I do have so many and I used to when I would do this previously actually transcribe all of them. Huh. |
| 1:13.0 | But right now, I don't have the time in the mental bandwidth right now to do it. |
| 1:20.0 | Dr. right away. What I'm seeing here is children lying on the ground, double amputation on one child, and there |
| 1:39.2 | are no beds available so people are literally just on the ground. |
| 1:44.4 | Do you listen back? |
| 1:46.3 | No. |
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