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00:00Dr. Tomo, given the destruction of the facilities like the burns unit at NASA Hospital,
00:07how are medical teams like yourself actually adapting to the situation
00:13and how are you able to treat patients and make sure that everyone is safe
00:19and also has nutrition to recover?
00:22Well, the short answer is we can't.
00:24We certainly can't make sure everybody is safe
00:26and we certainly can't make sure everyone has nutrition to the amount required.
00:31So what we can do is the best with what we've got.
00:36So yes, the burns unit was struck earlier in the week.
00:42So this had obviously a significant impact on being able to treat the patients there
00:48because they've now had to be transferred to different areas across the strip
00:55to different, sorry, across the hospital, which means they're not all in the same place,
00:59which means it's much more difficult to look after them
01:01because you haven't got a dedicated team because they're spread out everywhere.
01:04We don't have necessarily the amount of dressings that we would like to treat these patients.
01:09So we can treat them, but we can't treat them to the standard which we would like to treat them
01:15and not to the standards that they are used to in peacetime, for example.
01:22So it's not that we can't do anything.
01:24We have to do something.
01:26You know, we cannot just leave these people,
01:27but clearly we can't do as well as we would like to given the circumstances.