UZBEKISTAN / MATERNAL HEALTH

Through a six-million dollar programme, UNICEF and the European Commission are helping Uzbekistan's hospitals and health workers to attain modern international standards in maternal and new born care. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:38
• Production Date: 5 May 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICINE
• Geographic Subject: UZBEKISTAN
• MAMS Id: U090505c

Description

STORY: UZBEKISTAN / MATERNAL HEALTH
TRT: 2.38
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN/ UZBEK/ NATS

DATELINE: FERGHANA, UZBEKISTAN, 23 MARCH, 2009. TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN, 26 MARCH, 2009

Shotlist

1. Close up, Maftuna Yakubova with new born son
2. Med shot Maftuna looking at son
3. Close up, Maftuna's son
4. Med shot, delivery chair in foreground, Maftuna and son in bed
5. Pan across Maftuna's face to son
6. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Maftuna Yakubova, (26), mother:
"A relative was close to help me and I liked using a delivery chair to give birth."
7. Zoom in, to baby in incubator
8. Wide shot, nurse with hands in incubator
9. Med shot, nurse taking baby's temperature inside incubator
10. Close up, incubator display
11. Reverse shot looking through incubator towards nurse
12. Close up, Umida Makhmudova breast feeding daughter
13. Med shot, nurse assisting Umida
14. Close up, Umida's daughter feeding
15. Close up, face of nurse assisting Umida
16. Med shot, nurse assisting Umida
17. Close up, Umida's daughter's face
18. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Umida Makhmudova, (33), mother:"My doctor from this hospital was advising me even before I became pregnant. She then monitored my progress all the way throughout my pregnancy."
19. Med shot, doctors on professional training course
20. Close up, doctor explaining examination technique to colleagues
21. Med shot, child facing camera doctors behind examining chest
22. Over shoulder shot through to child being examined
23. Wide shot, doctors at seminar with international experts
24. Med shot, international expert explaining point at seminar
25. Med shot, Uzbek doctors listening to expert
26. Close up, doctors practicing resuscitation
27. Pan across doctors observing resuscitation training
28. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dr. Malika Usmanova, Training Coordinator:"In Uzbekistan we still have areas where modern techniques are not practiced so it's important to have an exchange of experiences."
29. Med shot, Uzbek doctor holding WHO chart
30. Wide shot, training seminar for doctors
31. Med shot, doctor holding chart seminar participants in background
32. Med shot, seminar participant writing notes
33. Wide shot, doctor on rounds in maternity ward
34. Med shot, doctor speaking to mother
35. Med shot, mother listening to doctor
36. Close up, new born child in mother's arms

Storyline

Maftuna Yakubova is overjoyed with the birth of her baby boy at the Perinatal Centre in Ferghana in eastern Uzbekistan. Maftuna delivered her first child here five years ago. She says last time she was given many injections. It was also painful to deliver lying down and she did not know she could breast feed her child after birth.

SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Maftuna Yakubova, (26), mother:
"A relative was close to help me and I liked using a delivery chair to give birth."

Progress has been made, but infant mortality in Uzbekistan remains high.Through a six-million dollar programme, UNICEF and the European Commission are helping Uzbekistan's hospitals and health workers to attain modern international standards in maternal and new born care.

Umida Makhmudova is just recovering from a caesarian section.Her new born daughter is benefiting from direct skin to skin contact after birth - a recently introduced practice in Uzbek hospitals. Umida says she'll name her daughter Durzoda, meaning pearl, because she's suffered two miscarriages in the past.

SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Umida Makhmudova, (33), mother:"My doctor from this hospital was advising me even before I became pregnant. She then monitored my progress all the way throughout my pregnancy."

Across the country some twelve-thousand health care providers are receiving training in newborn care and child survival.Along with establishing 17 new training centres, international experts are sharing their knowledge with senior pediatricians, obstetricians and neonatal specialists in Uzbekistan.

In turn doctors, nurses and midwives in regional hospitals are beginning to better trained and equipped to deal with birth complications and can save more lives.

SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dr. Malika Usmanova, Training Coordinator:"In Uzbekistan we still have areas where modern techniques are not practiced so it's important to have an exchange of experiences."

Helping hospitals to maintain accurate WHO defined statistics on live child births and causes of death will also enable Uzbekistan's health services to plan for the future.UNICEF and the European Commission say these evidence-based, low cost measures could have a high impact on maternal care as well as newborn and early child survival in Uzbekistan.