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COTE D’IVOIRE / MALNUTRITON
STORY: COTE D’IVOIRE / MALNUTRITION
TRT: 2.35
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 DECEMBER 2009, KOKO, BOUAKA, COTE D’IVOIRE
1. Med shot, malnourished child sitting
2. Close up, malnourished child
3. Med shot, malnourished child standing
4. Close up, malnourished baby motioning to her mouth
5. Med shot, child in mothers arms measuring arm
6. Close up, health care workers’s hand explaining measurement
7. Med shot, mother with baby, pounding food
8. Close up, baby Fatoumata
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Teoua Silue, mother of nine:
“After giving birth, I didn’t have milk for two weeks. A neighbour told me about a nutritional centre, but I was hoping that I would start to produce milk again. I even bought medication from the pharmacy to stimulate the milk, but that only worked for a couple of hours.”
10. Wide shot, Teoua and other mother with babies walking down street
11. Wide shot, nutritional centre
12. Wide shot, mothers gathered for counselling
13. Close up, baby in mother’s arms
14. Med shot, child being measured
15. Med shot, child being weighed
16. Close up, scale measurement
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Salimata Koulibaly Kone, Midwife, Red Cross Nutritional Centre, Korogho:
“The child suffers with malnutrition for some time, the child’s growth suffers. Some parents don’t accept the word, “malnutrition”. For them it is a kind of evil, or a devil. They prefer to pull away from the child, or abandon the child. When the mothers arrive with their children, the first thing we do is explain that malnutrition is a sickness. There is no reason to leave the child. Then we explain the causes of the sickness.”
18. Med shot, Women waiting at centre for counselling
19. Wide shot, mother with baby
20. Med shot, mother with baby
21. Wide shot, mother talking with health worker
22. Med shot, mother feeding baby milk
23. Close up, baby drinking milk
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Salimata Koulibaly Kone, Midwife, Red Cross Nutritional Centre, Korogho:
“When they arrive, we first give sugar-water to the child – after that we weigh and measure the child. Then we give the first milk to test the child’s appetite. Then we sensitize the mother and explain that if she follows the treatment, the child will recover and become strong like other children. But for this she must be courageous and strong.”
25. Med shot, mother giving child to health worker to be weighed
26. Med shot, crying child being weighed
27. Med shot, mother laying child down to be measured
28. Close up, child’s feet on measuring table
29. Close up, baby being fed
30. Close up, baby being fed
31. Wide shot, counsellor and mothers cooking
32. Close up, cooking pot
33. Close up, woman listening
34. Med shot, Teoua and family eating
35. Close up, Teoua and baby
36. Close up, child eating
37. Med shot, community workers with mothers
38. Close up, drawings
39. Med shot, worker with Teoua at home
40. Med shot, kids eating
41. Close up, child eating.
Malnutrition is the root cause of many childhood diseases in Ivory Coast where one out of three children will not live to celebrate their fifth birthday.
The political and social crisis of 2002 and the recent global food crisis has exacerbated the precarious food insecurity in the country intensifing chronic malnutrition.
Fatoumata is Silue’s ninth child and weighed only 2.2 kilograms at six weeks.
Only then did her mother take her to the Red Cross’s Therapeutic nutrition centre, supported by UNICEF, in Korogho.
SOUNDBITE (French) Teoua Silue, mother of nine:
“After giving birth, I didnt have milk for two weeks. A neighbour told me about a nutritional centre, But I was hoping that my breasts would start to produce milk again themselves. I even bought médication from the pharmacy to stimulate the milk, but that only worked for a couple of hours.”
Silue eventually went to the centre where they gave her supplements to improve her milk production, as the mother’s milk is the most important food for a newborn baby.
SOUNDBITE (French) Salimata Koulibaly Kone, Midwife, Red Cross Nutritional Centre, Korogho:
“The child suffers with malnutrition for some time, the child’s growth suffers. Some parents don’t accept the word, “malnutrition”. For them it is a kind of evil, or a devil. They prefer to pull away from the child, or abandon the child.”
Children older than six months, suffering from severe acute malnutrition, are taken in for treatment by the centre.
SOUNDBITE (French) Salimata Koulibaly Kone, Midwife, Red Cross Nutritional Centre, Korogho:
“When the mothers arrive with their children, the first thing we do is explain that malnutrition is a sickness. There is no reason to leave the child. Then we explain the causes of the sickness.”
Here the baby will receive supplemental milk and integrated child survival care including vaccinations and counselling for mothers on best feeding practices.
SOUNDBITE (French) Salimata Koulibaly Kone, Midwife, Red Cross Nutritional Centre, Korogho:
“When they arrive, we first give sugar-water to the child – after that we weigh and measure the child. Then we give the first milk to test the child’s appetite. Then we sensitize the mother and explain that if she follows the treatment, the child will recover and become strong like other children. But for this she must be courageous and strong.”
UNICEF supports community health workers in sensitizing mothers on best feeding practices and reaches out beyond the centre to closely monitor the nutritional levels in the community to ensure no children are overlooked.
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