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Syria-Suspected Attack/Testimonies
Douma, Syria - April 21, 2018 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland/Orient TV/Syria Alshaab TV/Zanoubia TV/Alhurra TV/ANN TV/Al Jazeera/Al-Arabiya TV)
1. Car driving on street of Douma
2. Damaged buildings, car
3. Various of materials for making explosives
4. Ambulance on street
5. Reporters at Douma hospital
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Malik Al-Najjar, doctor, Douma hospital:
"Smoke or dust was the reason for their acute asthma. We treated these patients who were suffering from acute asthma, but their symptoms were not related to chemical poisoning."
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser, nurse, Douma hospital (no full name given):
"It was quite dusty. There were many injured people being admitted. Among them were those who were injured in the war, those who suffered aspiration problems due to smoke and dust. Some people who wore masks came to the hospital, they are not medics, they came from outside the hospital. Some of them shouted about a chemical attack, some of them sprayed water, the situation at that time was pretty chaotic and out of our control, because it was too crowded at the scene, and many of the people were patients, so we couldn't control the situation in the emergency room."
8. Man carrying injured child
9. Injured child being treated
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Osama, nurse, Douma hospital (partially overlaid with shot 11):
"We all know that one of the major symptoms for chemical poisoning is that the patent's pupils will dilate. We alway remember that at work. I checked the patients' pupils, they didn't have this symptom. At that time some people shouted about a chemical attack, they are not the hospital's staff, they are probably from the White Helmets."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
11. Hospital corridor
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) local resident (no name given):
"We knew each other because we have been living here together. I have never heard that anyone was attacked by a chemical weapon or died from a chemical attack."
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) local resident (no name given):
"The Syria Civil Defense [White Helmets] or the Army of Islam did that, they have ruined this country."
14. People, beds in hospital hall
15. Sign on hospital wall
16. Ambulance
17. Parent walking on street with children
Medics and local residents of the Syrian town of Douma, where an alleged chemical attack was said to have taken place on April 7, said on Saturday that they did not find any casualties caused by chemical weapons on that day.
Malik Al-Najjar, a doctor of a local hospital that treated the injured people in the suspected chemical attack, said the patients he treated did not show symptoms of chemical poisoning.
"Smoke or dust was the reason for their acute asthma. We treated these patients who were suffering from acute asthma, but their symptoms were not related to chemical poisoning," said Al-Najjar.
The allegation of a chemical attack was spread by a group of unidentified people, according to a nurse of the hospital named Yasser.
"It was quite dusty. There were many injured people being admitted. Among them were those who were injured in the war, those who suffered aspiration problems due to smoke and dust. Some people who wore masks came to the hospital, they are not medics, they came from outside the hospital. Some of them shouted about a chemical attack, some of them sprayed water, the situation at that time was pretty chaotic and out of our control, because it was too crowded at the scene, and many of the people were patients, so we couldn't control the situation in the emergency room," said Yasser.
Another nurse named Osama blamed opposition organizations for spreading the rumor.
"We all know that one of the major symptoms for chemical poisoning is that the patent's pupils will dilate. We alway remember that at work. I checked the patients' pupils, they didn't have this symptom. At that time some people shouted about a chemical attack, they are not the hospital's staff, they are probably from the White Helmets," said Osama.
In addition to medical workers, local residents and eyewitnesses also denied the chemical attack.
"We knew each other because we have been living here together. I have never heard that anyone was attacked by a chemical weapon or died from a chemical attack," said a local resident at the hospital.
"The Syria Civil Defense [White Helmets] or the Army of Islam did that, they have ruined this country," said a young man outside the hospital.
Syria-Suspected Attack/Testimonies
Dateline : April 21, 2018
Location : Douma,Syrian Arab Republic
Duration : 3'02
Douma, Syria - April 21, 2018 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland/Orient TV/Syria Alshaab TV/Zanoubia TV/Alhurra TV/ANN TV/Al Jazeera/Al-Arabiya TV)
1. Car driving on street of Douma
2. Damaged buildings, car
3. Various of materials for making explosives
4. Ambulance on street
5. Reporters at Douma hospital
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Malik Al-Najjar, doctor, Douma hospital:
"Smoke or dust was the reason for their acute asthma. We treated these patients who were suffering from acute asthma, but their symptoms were not related to chemical poisoning."
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser, nurse, Douma hospital (no full name given):
"It was quite dusty. There were many injured people being admitted. Among them were those who were injured in the war, those who suffered aspiration problems due to smoke and dust. Some people who wore masks came to the hospital, they are not medics, they came from outside the hospital. Some of them shouted about a chemical attack, some of them sprayed water, the situation at that time was pretty chaotic and out of our control, because it was too crowded at the scene, and many of the people were patients, so we couldn't control the situation in the emergency room."
8. Man carrying injured child
9. Injured child being treated
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Osama, nurse, Douma hospital (partially overlaid with shot 11):
"We all know that one of the major symptoms for chemical poisoning is that the patent's pupils will dilate. We alway remember that at work. I checked the patients' pupils, they didn't have this symptom. At that time some people shouted about a chemical attack, they are not the hospital's staff, they are probably from the White Helmets."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
11. Hospital corridor
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) local resident (no name given):
"We knew each other because we have been living here together. I have never heard that anyone was attacked by a chemical weapon or died from a chemical attack."
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) local resident (no name given):
"The Syria Civil Defense [White Helmets] or the Army of Islam did that, they have ruined this country."
14. People, beds in hospital hall
15. Sign on hospital wall
16. Ambulance
17. Parent walking on street with children
Medics and local residents of the Syrian town of Douma, where an alleged chemical attack was said to have taken place on April 7, said on Saturday that they did not find any casualties caused by chemical weapons on that day.
Malik Al-Najjar, a doctor of a local hospital that treated the injured people in the suspected chemical attack, said the patients he treated did not show symptoms of chemical poisoning.
"Smoke or dust was the reason for their acute asthma. We treated these patients who were suffering from acute asthma, but their symptoms were not related to chemical poisoning," said Al-Najjar.
The allegation of a chemical attack was spread by a group of unidentified people, according to a nurse of the hospital named Yasser.
"It was quite dusty. There were many injured people being admitted. Among them were those who were injured in the war, those who suffered aspiration problems due to smoke and dust. Some people who wore masks came to the hospital, they are not medics, they came from outside the hospital. Some of them shouted about a chemical attack, some of them sprayed water, the situation at that time was pretty chaotic and out of our control, because it was too crowded at the scene, and many of the people were patients, so we couldn't control the situation in the emergency room," said Yasser.
Another nurse named Osama blamed opposition organizations for spreading the rumor.
"We all know that one of the major symptoms for chemical poisoning is that the patent's pupils will dilate. We alway remember that at work. I checked the patients' pupils, they didn't have this symptom. At that time some people shouted about a chemical attack, they are not the hospital's staff, they are probably from the White Helmets," said Osama.
In addition to medical workers, local residents and eyewitnesses also denied the chemical attack.
"We knew each other because we have been living here together. I have never heard that anyone was attacked by a chemical weapon or died from a chemical attack," said a local resident at the hospital.
"The Syria Civil Defense [White Helmets] or the Army of Islam did that, they have ruined this country," said a young man outside the hospital.
ID : 8078918
Published : 2018-04-22 13:39
Last Modified : 2018-04-22 14:05:00
Source : China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Restrictions : No access Chinese Mainland/Orient TV/Syria Alshaab TV/Zanoubia TV/Alhurra TV/ANN TV/Al Jazeera/Al-Arabiya TV
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