JORDAN / ZA’ATARI MIDWFE

Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan has become home to thousands of Syrian women and adolescent girls who fled the violence in their homeland. Many of these refugees have come to depend on the midwifery services provided by “Mama” Munira. A UN new report looks at the 73 African, Asian and Latin American countries that suffer 96 per cent of the world’s maternal deaths. UNFPA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:28
• Production Date: 2 June 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND - UNFPA
• Subject Topical: MEDICINE; MEDICAL SCIENCES; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
• MAMS Id: 1025810

Description

STORY: JORDAN / ZA’ATARI MIDWFE
TRT: 2:28
SOURCE: UNFPA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 29 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 2014, ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP JORDAN

Shotlist

JANUARY 2014, ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP JORDAN

1. Wide shot, refugee camp while two children walk
2. Wide shot, refugee camp housing units
3. Med shot, mother holding baby
4. Close up, UNFPA nurse/ midwife “Mama” Munira Shaban talking with mothers outside her office
5. Med shot, Munira greeting a patient outside her office
6. Close up, Munira greeting a patient outside her office
7. Close up, Munira giving her patient medicine
8. Wide shot, Munira sitting at her desk with patient
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Za’atari, “Mama” Munira Shaban, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Nurse/ Midwife:
“They need me for deliveries, for pregnant women, for children, for family planning and methods and I felt that I know all this knowledge and why not give?”
10. Med shot, young woman getting water at the camp
11. Med shot, young woman sitting alone by a fence
12. Wide shot, mother and child walking in desert
13. Med shot, Munira counseling a patient
14. Close up, patient listening to Munira
15. Close up, Munira at her desk with patient
16. Close up, Munira writing an entry into her books
17. Wide shot, women and children await supplies outside the UNFPA annex
18. Close up, women and her newborn leaving the UNFPA annex

29 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“There are no doctors, so a midwife, in that circumstance is a godsend because she can do everything to save the lives of mother, baby, and also the children around who are in need of attention.”

JANUARY 2014, ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP JORDAN

20. Wide shot, Munira teaching a class to refugee women
21. Close up, refugee attending the class
22. Close up, Munira teaching

29 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY

23. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“And the midwife, in those circumstances is perfect because it means that she can intervene, first looking after them before they give birth and ensuring that she supervises delivery and then looks after them after they’ve delivered so they and their children are healthy.”

JANUARY 2014, ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP JORDAN

24. Med shot, mother bringing her newborn and child into see Munira
25. Med shot, Munira playing with the child in the office while newborn lies on bed

Storyline

Since the start of the Syrian crisis, the Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan has become home to thousands of women and adolescent girls who fled the violence in their homeland.

Many of these refugees have come to depend on the services provided by “Mama” Munira, a nurse midwife providing desperately needed help to pregnant women and girls who are trying to rebuild their lives.

Midwives like, Munira Sha’ban, are essential in a crisis situation like this. UNFPA, (United Nations Population Fund) estimates that one in five women are expected to become pregnant during such an event. Midwives can sometimes be the only people aavailable with the skills to help.

SOUNDBITE (English) Za’atari, “Mama” Munira Shaban, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Nurse/ Midwife:
“They need me for deliveries, for pregnant women, for children, for family planning and methods and I felt that I know all this knowledge and why not give?”

And this knowledge and life saving skils are what is desperately needed throughout the world. A new UN report by UNFPA and its partners details the state of the world’s midwifery.

The report, titled “The State of the World’s Midwifery 2014: A Universal Pathway”, looks at the 73 African, Asian and Latin American countries that suffer 96 per cent of the world’s maternal deaths.

These countries, despite facing the lion’s share of maternal mortality, have only 42 percent of the world’s midwives, nurses and doctors.

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive director of UNFPA says that in a humanitarian crisis, a midwife can make the difference between life and death to millions of women and newborns.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“There are no doctors, so a midwife, in that circumstance is a godsend because she can do everything to save the lives of mother, baby, and also the children around who are in need of attention.”

Midwives like Shaban can provide nearly nine-tenths of the essential care women and newborns need. This is critically important in countries where quality, hospital-based maternal care is limited, or where economic, geographic or social barriers block women’s access to it. Something that Osotimehin is well aware of.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“And the midwife, in those circumstances is perfect because it means that she can intervene, first looking after them before they give birth and ensuring that she supervises delivery and then looks after them after they’ve delivered so they and their children are healthy.”