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SOUTH SUDAN / CHOLERA
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / CHOLERA
TRT: 2.52
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 MAY 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Med shot, cholera victim being brought by relatives to the Isolation ward at the Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) at the Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba, South Sudan
2. Pan right, cholera patients lying in bed
3. Various shots, boy getting dehydration drip
4. Wide shot of Dr. Wani Lolik Lado, Director General of Juba Teaching Hospital talking to the cholera victims
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Wani Lolik Lado, Director General of Juba Teaching Hospital: “We are tying to coordinate out efforts, between the different groups, the cleaners, the doctors and who ever is doing what, we are trying to establish it. It is only yesterday that we finished training the staff working here. Now we are tying to improve on what is significant; since the Centre was established there is not death cases reported within the centre. The three cases that were reported to have died in our hospital actually died on the way coming to the Centre.
6. Various shots, boy getting dehydration drip
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Wani Lolik Lado, Director General of Juba Teaching Hospital:
“Like any other epidemic, we expect that the most vulnerable group are the aged and the children. So it goes without question that the old people will because of weakness and always the children will suffer the most”
8. Various shots, UNICEF staff directing hospital staff on how to make chlorine water for sanitization and cleaning and disinfecting the wards
9. Med shot, hospital staff going to spray the chlorine water on the contaminated areas of the hospital ward
10. Pan right, UNICEF materials arriving at the Cholera Treatment Centre and a construction of UNICEF triad tent for extra handling of cholera patients
11. Wide shot, UNICEF triad tent
12. Wide shot, hospital staff talking to the Cholera patients
13. Various shots, sick children drinking Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) solution
14. Med shot, mother and child lying on hospital bed
15. Various shots, UNICEF supported materials
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Claudia Vivas, Emergency Health Officer
“UNICEF is supporting the case management through setting triad tent, we are also working inside, with the nurses and doctors from the hospital, providing ORS to the children and women who are affected and to all the patients. We are also improving the water and sanitation situation inside the hospital.”
17. Med shot, cholera patient with her mother
The caseload of cholera is rapidly increasing in South Sudan and the deadly, highly contagious disease appears to be spreading, UNICEF said today (19 May).
Since the outbreak of cholera in the capital Juba late last week, the reported cholera caseload has doubled every day; now with new reported cases in two additional states, Jonglei and Upper Nile. After the first case was confirmed in Juba four days ago, more than 130 additional cases are now being treated. There are three confirmed deaths. Dozens of children are among the affected.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Wani Lolik Lado, Director General of Juba Teaching Hospital: “We are tying to coordinate out efforts, between the different groups, the cleaners, the doctors and who ever is doing what, we are trying to establish it. It is only yesterday that we finished training the staff working here. Now we are tying to improve on what is significant; since the Centre was established there is not death cases reported within the centre. The three cases that were reported to have died in our hospital actually died on the way coming to the Centre.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Wani Lolik Lado, Director General of Juba Teaching Hospital:
“Like any other epidemic, we expect that the most vulnerable group are the aged and the children. So it goes without question that the old people will because of weakness and always the children will suffer the most”
Since January, UNICEF has warned of the threat of cholera, due to the desperate overcrowding of camps following continued violence, and now the rainy season. Last month, UNICEF said that unless nutrition treatment is scaled up immediately, up to 50,000 children under the age of five are likely to die.
In response to the cholera outbreak, UNICEF has helped establish a Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) at the Juba Teaching Hospital. It also provided life-saving supplies, including medicines, protective gear and equipment, and is expanding preventive measures to halt further spread across the country.
SOUNDBITE (English) Claudia Vivas, Emergency Health Officer
“UNICEF is supporting the case management through setting triad tent, we are also working inside, with the nurses and doctors from the hospital, providing ORS to the children and women who are affected and to all the patients. We are also improving the water and sanitation situation inside the hospital.”
However, UNICEF in South Sudan urgently needs US$10 million to assist the continuation of the current life-saving operations and increase its cholera prevention work.
The situation, calls for international community act quickly to prevent now potentially a public health emergency in South Sudan. The on-going violence has displaced more than 1.3 million people, placing an enormous strain on already limited water and sanitation facilities.
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