KOSOVO / HEALTH CARE

Post conflict funds have helped Kosovo ensure that basic infrastructure for health services is in place for the people. Kosovo's reconstruction has progressed since the end of the conflict there in 1999. WORLD BANK

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:30
• Production Date: 26 October 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD BANK
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; MEDICINE
• Geographic Subject: YUGOSLAVIA
• MAMS Id: U091026c

Description

STORY: KOSOVO / HEALTH
TRT: 2:30
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ALBANIAN / NATS

DATELINE: FEBRUARY 2009, CABRA, KOSOVO

Shotlist

1. Pan right, Çabra village
2. Wide shot, woman out hanging laundry
3. Med shot, Selami exiting office.
4. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Selami Rama, Çabra Resident:
“It was difficult because for any illness you had to go all the way to Mitrovice, now it is much better because the clinic is here.”
5. Med shot, exiting clinic
6. Wide shot, Fatmire entering clinic
7. Med shot, Fatmire entering nurse’s office
8. Med shot, doctor checking child
9. Med shot, doctor talking to Fatmire
10. SOUNBITE (Albanian) Fatmire Mehmeti, Çabra Resident:
“Now it is easier, we don’t have to go to Mitrovice. But we wish the doctor came everyday and not just twice a week!”
11. Med shot, doctor in his office checking another patient
12. Various shots, patient’s foot being dressed
13. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Dr. Vllaznim Hoti:
“We see different cases, mainly now we have cases of flu, but we also see other cases of lung, heart and kidney problems.”
14. Med shot, nurse and patient
16. Close up, nurse
17. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Hida Hasani, Nurse:
“I live here and I have a house here, they all know my telephone number, so no matter if during working hours or after hours, I am here for them.”
18. Wide shot, people outside clinic
19. Wide shot, entering clinic
20. Close up, Veseli
21. Various shots, Veseli going over maps
22. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Cerkin Veseli, Director of Cabra Community Office:
“It is a very strong reason to stay in Cabra because there are the right conditions now in the village.”
23. Wide shot, people outside clinic
24. Wide shot, road in front of clinic

Storyline

The quiet mountain village of Çabra in the mountains of Kosovo was almost totally destroyed in civil conflict following the disintegration of Yugoslavia.

Villagers swiftly rebuilt their homes, but were left with no local health services. Twenty-year old Selami says getting to the nearest city with a hospital was hard for him and his aging mother.

SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Selami Rama, Çabra Resident :
“It was difficult because for any illness you had to go all the way to Mitrovice, now it is much better because the clinic is here.”

The building of the new clinic in Çabra is one of the approximately 250 vital infrastructure projects Kosovo has undertaken, with support from the World Bank’s post-conflict fund.

Çabra resident Fatmire Mehmeti has come to the clinic with her five-year old daughter Aurora, who has a fever:

Fatmire says having medical services nearby is imperative for mothers like herself, especially in the winter months when kids are prone to flu.

SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Fatmire Mehmeti, Çabra Resident:
“Now it is easier, we don’t have to go to Mitrovice. But we wish the doctor came everyday and not just twice a week!”

Dr. Vllaznim Hoti sees patients at the Çabra clinic two days a week. Those with serious illnesses are sent for treatment at Mitrovice, the nearest city with a hospital.

SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Dr. Vllaznim Hoti:
“We see different cases, mainly now we have cases of flu, but we also see other cases of lung, heart and kidney problems.”

When the doctor is not in, patients rely on nurses, like Hida Hasani, who works at the clinic five days a week and sometimes more.

SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Hida Hasani, Nurse:
“I live here and I have a house here, they all know my telephone number, so no matter if during working hours or after hours, I am here for them.”

Residents contributed to the total cost of building the health clinic. Such cooperation and the clinic itself have given people of economically-depressed Çabra an incentive to remain, say community officials.

SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Cerkin Veseli, Director of Çabra Community Office:

“It is a very strong reason to stay in Çabra because there are the right conditions now in the village.”

With the village’s health assured, Veseli says he and other village leaders are now focusing on Çabra’s next pressing issue: creating jobs for its residents.