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SOMALIA / FIELD HOSPITAL
STORY: SOMALIA / FIELD HOSPITAL
TRT: 7.27
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SOMALI/ NATS
DATELINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2011, DOLOW, SOMALIA
1. Wide shot, landing airplane
2. Wide shot, camels next to landing place
3. Wide shot, truck driving next to landing place
4. Close up, airplane
5. Close up, truck, ready to discharge the airplane
6. Med shot, discharging of the airplane
7. Close up, medical supplies discharged from the airplane
8. Close up, unloading boxes with medical supplies
9. Close up, unloading operation table
10. Close up, medical supplies being put on truck
11. Close up, medical supplies discharged from the airplane
12. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdi Ali Mohamed, Nurse at the Dolow Health Centre:
“The newly arrived medical supplies and equipment will help us a lot in our day-to-day activities. We will be able to do things we weren’t able to do so due to lack of proper equipment.”
13. Wide shot, Dolow village
14. Med shot, Dolow village
15. Med shot, household in Dolow village
16. Med shot, street in Dolow village
17. Close up, Dolow Health Centre
18. Close up, billboard Dolow Health Centre
19. Med shot, medical consultation
20. Wide shot, patients waiting outside the health centre
21. Close up, some patients waiting outside the health centre
22. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Barre Abdi, Patient Waiting for Treatment:
“I come from far away. I have walked two days to reach Dolow. I have stomach pain, and think I have an appendix problem. I was told that there are doctors in Dolow who can do surgery, and that is why I came here.”
23. Wide shot, wardroom in Dolow health centre
24. Close up, one bed with patient
25. Med shot, man carrying his family member
26. Med shot, entrance observation room
27. Close up, WHO medical doctor examining patient
28. Med shot, examination patient
29. Close up, pharmacy
30. Close up, pharmacist dispensing drugs
31. Close up, patient waiting to get drugs
32. Close up, pharmacist dispensing drugs
33. Close up, ladies walking next to field hospital tent
34. Med shot, entrance hospital tent
35. Med shot, patients waiting
36. Med shot, examination patient
37. Close up, shoulder patient
38. Med shot, patient
39. Med shot, different patient, disinfecting hand
40. Close up, hand of patient
41. Close up, face of patient
42. Close up, face of doctor
43. Close up, injection
44. Close up, patient getting injection
45. Wide shot, injection of patient
46. Wide shot, operating theatre
47. Close up, face of WHO medical doctor
48. Med shot, group of doctors in operating theatre
49. Close up, medical doctor
50. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdi Ali Mohamed, Nurse at the Dolow Health Centre:
“Having this new medicines and equipment here in Dolow means a lot for the community. The doctors train our staff, teaching them new skills that will benefit in the end the whole community of Dolow. Some of the patients used to go to Addis Ababa or Nairobi, but now they can get treatment in their own village. People used to pay a lot of money to get medical treatment but now that is not the case anymore. The local medical staff is now able to carry out minor surgeries.”
51. Med shot, cist taken out during operation
52. Med shot, using stitches to close the wound
53. Close up, drip
54. Close up, hand with drip tube
55. Med shot, operating theatre, with patient
56. Med shot, operation material
57. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdi Mohamed Ashkir, Operated Patient:
“I am grateful for the doctors who helped me today. They gave me free surgery, and I’m very happy with this. It saved me also a lot of money, because otherwise I would have had to travel far away to get treatment.”
58. Wide shot, discharged patient leaves field hospital tent
A new field hospital was installed in late September in Dolow Somalia, nearby the Ethiopian border, in order to provide medical aid to thousands of Somali refugees fleeing towards the border areas. The hospital will be operated and managed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The world health body is providing medical professionals to staff the facility as well as all the needed medical supplies and equipment.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdi Ali Mohamed, Nurse at the Dolow Health Centre:
“The newly arrived medical supplies and equipment will help us a lot in our day-to-day activities. We will be able to do things we weren’t able to do so due to lack of proper equipment.”
The main reason for setting up a field hospital is part of WHO’s strategy to decentralize health care, especially in an emergency setting. Many internally displaced people are seeking health assistance and therefore flee to bigger cities, including Mogadishu. In order to stop some of the huge influx of IDPs to the Somali capital, the newly installed field hospital will treat patients mainly from the Gedo and Bakool regions.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Barre Abdi, Patient Waiting for Treatment:
“I come from far away. I have walked two days to reach Dolow. I have stomach pain, and think I have an appendix problem. I was told that there are doctors in Dolow who can do surgery, and that is why I came here.”
However, also people from the Ethiopian and Kenyan border areas might benefit from this newly established hospital.
The Dolow Somalia area previously never had secondary health care, therefore the best way to reach the people in need and make best use of the resources is by setting up a field hospital.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdi Ali Mohamed, Nurse at the Dolow Health Centre:
“Having this new medicines and equipment here in Dolow means a lot for the community. The doctors train our staff, teaching them new skills that will benefit in the end the whole community of Dolow. Some of the patients used to go to Addis Ababa or Nairobi, but now they can get treatment in their own village. People used to pay a lot of money to get medical treatment but now that is not the case anymore. The local medical staff is now able to carry out minor surgeries.”
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Together with the installation of the field hospital also needed medical supplies and equipment got delivered. The major consultations included malaria, acute watery diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections and provision of emergency surgical treatments for patients suffering from tumours, shrapnel, foreign bodies and birth defects.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdi Mohamed Ashkir, Operated Patient:
“I am grateful for the doctors who helped me today. They gave me free surgery, and I’m very happy with this. It saved me also a lot of money, because otherwise I would have had to travel far away to get treatment.”
The installed field hospital is a mobile self-contained and self-sufficient facility, which includes a tent with 8 beds, one operating theatre, and a basic laboratory. The field hospital is meant to run for the coming months. Financial support has been provided by the Norwegian government.
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