Gazans break tradition to more openly embrace plastic surgery

STORY: Gazans break tradition to more openly embrace plastic surgery DATELINE: March 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:21 LOCATION: Gaza CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of Tariq Dirdisawi having hair implant surgerySOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): TARIQ DIRDISAWI, Pediatrician from Gaza Cityvarious of doctors and nurses workingSOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): AHMED AL-MOGHRABI, Plastic surgeonvarious of street views STORYLINE: Tariq Dirdisawi, a pediatrician from Gaza City, plans a hair implant surgery, hoping to get rid of the baldness that has troubled him for years. The 41-year-old father of three told Xinhua that what prompted him to undergo plastic surgery was mainly the desire to obtain a good look and partly related to an increasingly open society in Gaza. "It is not a shame to take care of ourselves, whether we are men or women. In the past, when I wanted to have such surgery, it required me to travel to Turkey, Egypt, or another country, which would cost me a lot of time, effort, and expenses, but today things have be