PAKISTAN / NOWSHERA MALNUTRITION

UNICEF and its partners help to establish rural health centres in north-western Pakistan to care for the millions of children affected last year's devastating floods. A year ago, floods submerged almost one-fifth of the country under water claiming 2,000 lives and destroying 1.6 million homes. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:15
• Production Date: 28 July 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: PAKISTAN
• MAMS Id: U110728d

Description

STORY: PAKISTAN / NOWSHERA MALNUTRITION
TRT: 2:15
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
 
DATELINE: 28 JUNE 2011, NOWSHERA DISTRICT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA / FILE

Shotlist

28 JUNE 2011, NOWSHERA DISTRICT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA


1. Wide shot, UNICEF-supported Rural Health Centre Khweshgi Payan in Nowshera District

2. Med shot, one year old Fiza Gul cries as she is examined by the nurse for malnutrition
3. Med shot, Fiza’s mother carries her in her arms and stands on a weighing scale



FILE - 13 OCTOBER 2010, SWAT DISTRICT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA



4. Med shot, two girl walk through flooded area

5. Wide shot, two boys sitting amidst debris

6. Wide shot, overflowing water, gushing waters of a river

7. Wide shot, children walking across water

8. Med shot, family under a tent, girl drinks out of a bowl



28 JUNE 2011, NOWSHERA DISTRICT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA



9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Ibrahim, Fiza’s father:

“My daughter got sick and was very weak. My wife and I worried about her. She could not even walk properly. One day a health worker came to us. She checked my daughter and told us that she was malnourished. Then we brought her to the health centre, where they measured her and gave her treatment. After being treated, our daughter recovered.”

10. Med shot, baby boy lying at the table, being examined at the table

11. Close up, baby’s feet against the scale

12. Med shot, health worker points to a chart and gives a demonstration

13. Pan left, supply of therapeutic food

14. Med shot, health worker shows a case study on his laptop

15. Med shot, mother with baby in her lap whose arm is being taped and measured as part of the malnutrition screening



FILE - 13 OCTOBER 2010, SWAT DISTRICT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA


16. Various shots, mothers feeding children at a nutrition center



28 JUNE 2011, NOWSHERA DISTRICT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA



17. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Fehmida Khattak, PEACE Nutrition and Hygiene Educator:
“Last year in July, people faced a lot of losses due to the floods. They lost their crops, livestock and their houses. Now a year after the floods, they still face the same problems. They are not yet able to build their houses and their land is not available for harvesting. The floods have made people’s financial situation worse and contributes to children becoming malnourished. They don’t have proper food and safe drinking water.”



FILE - 13 OCTOBER 2010, SWAT DISTRICT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA



18. Wide shot, aerial shot, huge swathes of land submerged under water
19. Med shot, man and son sitting under a tent

20. Pan left, flooded street

21. Close up, children sitting on a charpai (hemp stretched on a wooden frame)


Storyline

This rural health centre in North-west Pakistan’s Nowshera district has proven to be a lifeline for one year old Fiza Gul.

Her medical examination shows that she has finally recovered her strength and energy.



Fiza had been diagnosed with acute malnutrition.



She was the amongst the millions of children hit hard by last year’s devastating floods.

The gushing waters destroyed her home and her father’s field leaving the family’s resources stretched and the children hungry.



SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Ibrahim, Fiza’s father:
“My daughter got sick and was very weak. My wife and I worried about her. She could not even walk properly. One day a health worker came to us. She checked my daughter and told us that she was malnourished. Then we brought her to the health centre, where they measured her and gave her treatment. After being treated, our daughter recovered.”



With support from UNICEF and its partners, this health centre has been screening children for malnutrition, counselling parents, providing them with supplies of therapeutic food and monitoring the progress made through the treatment.



UNICEF has reached out to more than half-a-million children and women across the country but the number of those in need remains overwhelming.



Malnutrition rates are critical, and little seems to be changing.



SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Fehmida Khattak, PEACE Nutrition and Hygiene Educator:
“Last year in July, people faced a lot of losses due to the floods. They lost their crops, livestock and their houses. Now a year after the floods, they still face the same problems. They are not yet able to build their houses and their land is not available for harvesting. The floods have made people’s financial situation worse and contributes to children becoming malnourished. They don’t have proper food and safe drinking water.”



A year after the flood waters submerged one fifth of Pakistan, people are still struggling to pick up the pieces still living in fear of nature’s fury.