MALI / NURSE JAMILLA

Jamilla fled Gao alongside thousands of others in 2012, when extremist groups occupied the northern Mali city. She is among those who has come back after years to rebuild, and uses her skills as a nurse to help the city to heal, despite ongoing insecurity in the region. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:35
• Production Date: 1 May 2019
• Asset Language: French
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; HEALTH CARE
• Geographic Subject: MALI
• MAMS Id: 2387248
• Parent Id: 2387248
• Alternate Title: unifeed190501a

Description

STORY: MALI / NURSE JAMILLA
TRT: 2:35
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: FRENCH /NATS

DATELINE: 11 FEBRUARY 2019, GAO, MALI

Shotlist

1. Various shots, Jamilla with patient
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“We care for patients. People come with all kinds of issues: malaria, diarrhoea, typhoid fever, stomach problems, high blood pressure.”
3. Various shots, children patients
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“We see a lot of children, even more than adults. That’s very important.”
5. Wide shot, Jamilla with a woman patient
6. Med shot, Jamilla with a woman patient
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“I worked hard for this. Ever since I was in elementary school. I’ve always wanted to wear a nurse’s white coat.”
8. Various shots, drone shots of Gao
9. Wide shot, exterior of Centre Santé de Référence
10. Med shot, UN armored vehicle with patrol
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“It was looted in April [2012]. Everything was stolen. We had nothing - no doors, no windows, nothing.”
12. Wide shot, Jamilla with patient
13. Wide shot, patients in waiting room
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“It makes me sad. It hurts, too, having your work place ransacked.”
15. Wide shot, woman leaving hospital
16. Various tracking shots, Jamilla riding her motorcycle
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“It is not completely over yet, but comparing to 2012, 2013, it is alright.”
18. Various shots, Jamilla with her family

Storyline

Jamilla fled Gao alongside thousands of others in 2012, when extremist groups occupied the northern Mali city. She is among those who has come back after years to rebuild, and uses her skills as a nurse to help the city to heal, despite ongoing insecurity in the region.

SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“We care for patients. People come with all kinds of issues: malaria, diarrhoea, typhoid fever, stomach problems, high blood pressure.”

The health center where Jamilla works, “Centre Santé de Référence,” has a maternity ward and antenatal care, an X-ray service and a pediatric unit.

SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“We see a lot of children, even more than adults. That’s very important.”

Working in health service is a life-long commitment for Jamilla.

SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“I worked hard for this. Ever since I was in elementary school. I’ve always wanted to wear a nurse’s white coat.”

Gao is the main city in northern Mali. Occupied by extremist forces in 2012, most of inhabitants fled. Years on, the country is still living with the impact of the unrest. There are a total of 135,000 Malians still living as refugees in neighbouring countries, another 120,000 displaced in their own country.

Despite all this, Gao’s population has grown, reaching some 60,000. The main city in the Malian Sahel, with a strong international security presence, it has also attracted those looking for greater security in the region. During the occupation, the hospitals and public service facilities were ransacked, equipment stolen or destroyed.

SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“It was looted in April [2012]. Everything was stolen. We had nothing - no doors, no windows, nothing.”

UNHCR, along with NGOs and partners organizations, have worked to rehabilitate the main local hospital, which provides services for the regional population – and where Jamilla Amadou works.

SOUNDBITE (French) Jamilla Amadou, nurse:
“It is not completely over yet, but comparing to 2012, 2013, it is alright.”

At home Jamilla continues to care for others. She has offered shelter to girls from nearby villages who fled when armed bandits attacked.

The Sahel is still a troubled region: a vast area where different armed groups proliferate. MINUSMA, the UN Stabilization Mission, operates with more than 30,000 people working in the country. The volatile security environment in northern and central Mali as well as in the border areas continues to trigger forced. The 2015 Peace Accord and Reconciliation in Mali still lacks necessary support and its implementation has been minimal.