Reference :
V-P-LY-E-00276
Date :
11/10/2011
Caption :
Sirte, Ibn Sina Hospital. Libyan Red Crescent volunteers help a man move his three-year-old son to a car that will take him out of the city for treatment in better conditions.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
The boy had been wounded two weeks earlier and, because the hospital was without water, could not receive proper care.
ICRC website, Photo gallery, 18-10-2011
Libya: medical evacuations from Sirte
On 11 October 2011, ICRC staff evacuated 17 patients for further medical treatment, bringing them first to a field hospital from where they were flown to hospitals in Tripoli. This was the third group of wounded people evacuated by the ICRC from Sirte in less than a week. This gallery depicts the operation in images. On 17 October, the ICRC evacuated another 21 patients, bringing the total number of evacuees from the Sirte hospital to 49.
The father of a three-year-old injured boy and Libyan Red Crescent volunteers move him to the car that will at last take him out of Sirte. For weeks, he had been lying on his back without proper hygienic care due to a lack of water in the hospital.
In Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte, around 75 war-wounded patients had been left with only a few health-care workers to look after them following fierce fighting in recent weeks. Inside the hospital, wounded patients with severe burns, shrapnel wounds or recent amputations were lying among crowds of other people in the hospital corridors.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
4288x2848
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
