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PAKISTAN / MATERNAL HEALTH
STORY: PAKISTAN / MATERNAL HEALTH
TRT: 2.03
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: SINDHI / NATS
DATELINE: 28 SEPTEMBER 2010, SINDH, PAKISTAN
1. Wide shot, aerial, flood waters
2. Med shot, refugees walking down the street
3. Wide shot, tracking shot, tents by side of road
4. Med shot, woman and children under tent
5. Med shot, women & nursing mother on dusty ground
6. Med shot, women walking down the street
7. Wide shot, Medical tent centre with banner
8. Close up, banner for MNCH Program Sindh
9. Med shot, waiting room, medical tent centre
10. Med shot, women at medical tent centre
11. Med shot, women at medical tent centre
12. Med shot, women at medical tent centre
13. Med shot, women walking to examining area
14. Medium shot, health worker examining pregnant woman
15. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Asma Farooq, Lady Health Worker, Thatta:
“If there is a pregnant lady in the camp then we go to her and we give her a full check up. We check the cardiac activity of the foetus and we check for foetal movement.”
16. Med shot, health workers walking to mobile health van
17. Close up, man shutting van door
18. Med shot, medical van driving along dusty roads to tents
19. Med shot, medical workers enter tent
20. Med shot, health worker talks to patient
21. Close up, health worker examines eyes
22. Med shot, health worker examines patient lying down
23. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Haleema Gafoor, mother:
“When the flood waters came and we left our home, I was pregnant and on the road, I was in pain and I didn’t know whether I would die or deliver the baby. When we came here in the camp, the doctor here gave me a check-up. And then later I had the baby right here.”
24. Med shot, women walking down dusty road
25. Pan right, women to health worker examining woman
26. Med shot, women outside tents
27. Med shot, medical worker examining patient
28. Close up, patient face to baby
29. Med shot, woman holding up her baby amidst other women
30. Close up, woman holding and kissing her baby
Across Pakistan, the flood waters are finally receding and people are making their way back to what is left of their homes and their devastated lives. Many have spent weeks often months in tent cities and the needs are still immense.
In transitional conditions like these, those who can be most in need are pregnant women and their babies.
Recognizing these needs, the Pakistani government, supported by UNICEF, has set up The Maternal Child and Neonatal Health program.
Here in Thatta, three tented MNCH centres have been set up to provide essential and much needed antenatal, perinatal and neonatal care.
SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Same Farooq, Health Worker, Thatta:
“If there is a pregnant lady in the camp then we go to her and we give her a full check up. We check the cardiac activity of the foetus and we check for foetal movement.”
To extend the reach of these services UNICEF is also supporting mobile outreach teams. Each team includes one doctor, one lady health worker and a community midwife. When necessary, the team refers the patient to the nearest hospital, but distances are often long and sometimes there simply isn’t enough time for referral.
20 year old Haleema Gafoor experienced this first hand:
SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Haleema Gafoor, mother:
“When the flood waters came and we left our home, I was pregnant and on the road, I was in pain and I didn’t know whether I would die or deliver the baby. When we came here in the camp, the doctor here gave me a check-up. And then later I had the baby right here.”
The challenges to delivering these essential services will continue to grow in the coming months as more people return home, increasing the geographical spread of the needy. For UNICEF this challenge represents an opportunity to provide life-saving health, nutrition, sanitation and educational services to those who were previously un-reached.
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