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UGANDA / REFUGEE NURSE
STORY: UGANDA / REFUGEE NURSE
TRT: 02:23
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 01 MAY 2017, NAKIVALE REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, UGANDA
1. Med shot, Bosco examining a sick child
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“I feel that if I am far away from a patient who needs my help I really feel bad.”
3. Med shot, patients lying in hospital beds
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“I feel that if I am far away from a patient who needs my help I really feel bad. I feel like someone can lose his life because of my absence.”
5. Close up, Bosco treating patients
6. Wide shot, Bosco and other medical staff treating a patient
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“I’m working with work mates. The majority of them are nationals.”
8. Tracking shot, Bosco and a Ugandan nurse
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“I really feel at home and they also feel me.”
10. Tracking shot, across a hospital ward
SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“We serve everyone regardless whether they are a refugee or a national. We serve them equally.”
11. Wide external shot of patients waiting
12. Med shot, Bosco with patients
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“Having a job I am able to sustain myself and my family.”
14. Wide shot, Bosco with other colleagues in doctor’s office
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“They managed to raise some money.”
16. Med shot, a doctor talking to patients
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“Staff would come and comfort me with my family and that’s how I coped.”
18. Various shots, doctor examining baby
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“If there weren’t these staff I don’t know where I could be now.”
20. Wide shot, Bosco in a children’s ward
21. Close up, the same
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“If God wishes I will have to become a pediatrician.”
23. Tilt down from mosquito nets to child patients in children’s ward
Bosco Niyonkuru, a refugee from Burundi, is making it his life mission to nurse patients at Nakivale hospital in Uganda back to health. It is a feat he takes on despite his own battle with cancer.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“My dream really was to become a nurse. I feel that if I am far away from a patient who needs my help I really feel bad. I feel like someone can lose his life because of my absence.”
Bosco is a refugee from Burundi and a nurse working in a hospital in Uganda.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“I’m working with work mates. The majority of them are nationals. I really feel at home and they also feel me.”
The hospital is open to refugees and Ugandans.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“We serve everyone regardless whether they are a refugee or a national. We serve them equally.”
Like many other refugees in Uganda, Bosco is able to earn a living.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“Having a job I am able to sustain myself and my family.”
After he was diagnosed with cancer, Bosco’s colleagues came together to care for him.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“They managed to raise some money. Staff would come and comfort me with my family and that’s how I coped. If there weren’t these staff I don’t know where I could be now.”
Bosco needs further treatment. He hopes to be resettled in another country with better access to the urgent care he needs and pursue bigger dreams.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bosco Niyonkuru, Burundian Refugee Nurse:
“If God wishes I will have to become a pediatrician.”
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