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PAKISTAN / FLOODS AID UPDATE
STORY: PAKISTAN / FLOODS AID UPDATE
TRT: 3:30
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 OCTOBER 2011, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
1. Wide shot, water gushes out into the field
2. Close shot, water and tree branches
4. Med shot, family sitting in a temporary makeshift shelter at the edge of the floodwater
5. Med shot, woman sitting under the open skies on a rope bed (charpoi) with families seen in the background.
6. Med shot, woman wading through ankle-deep flood waters with her three children
7. Wide shot, women sitting together outside a school, with trees in the foreground
8. Close shot, two little children sitting on the ground
9. Med shot, a young pregnant woman standing near her shelter
10. Med shot, three women standing out in the open carrying a small child
11. Close shot, woman lighting a fire.
12. Wide shot, Rani lighting the fire to cook food
13. Close shot, profile shot of Rani
14. Close shot, the pan on which Rani is making flour flatbread
15. Close shot, profile silhouette shot of Rani
16. Wide shot, Rani walking outside her home carrying her child
17. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi), Rani Mauji, Flood victim:
“We were fleeing our village when he fell down and died. We had to bury him along the way.”
18. Close shot, Omji crying under a mosquito net
19. Wide shot, Raani’s mother-in-law as she carries the baby from under the blanket.
20. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi), Rani Mauji, Flood victim:
“He has been suffering from severe diahorrea, and is not taking much milk. I don’t know why. We heard there was a medical team coming so we went to seek help.”
21. Med shot, mobile health vehicle standing outside the temporary health center
22. Wide shot, Woman Medical Officer conducting health education sessions with a group of women
23. Med shot, Woman Medical Officer
24. Close shot, child carrying a bottle of amoxicillin given to her mother
25. Close shot, child being vaccinated by a health officer
26. Wide shot, a mother and child being handed a bed net
27. Med shot, a newborn baby lying in a blanket, with his older sister sitting beside him
28. Med shot, Dr. Waheeda Memon standing as Rani puts her baby down on the table in front of her
29. Various shots, Dr Waheeda examining the baby
30. Close shot, Dr. Waheeda examining the dehydration levels of the child by squeezing the skin
31. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Dr. Waheeda Memon, Woman Medical Officer, Maternal & Neo-natal Child Health Programme:
”When Rani came to me, her child was clinically premature and severely dehydrated. Rani is not producing enough breast milk, so the baby is not getting the required nutrition. There is hardly any awareness about hygiene either. Also, she is under considerable psychological trauma due to her husband’s death, who died during the floods.”
32. SOUNDBITE (Urdu), Dr. Jairam Das, Communication Officer, National Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Program:
”Our services include ante-natal checkup, post-natal care and deliveries. We have set up referral centers where family planning services, tetanus vaccinations and immunization services are being provided. We are also conducting health education sessions where awareness is being given to communities on health and hygiene, because these displaced communities have no access to safe drinking water. Our main focus is on mothers and children. We are conducting these interventions in seven districts together with our UN partners.”
33. Med shot, woman medical officer examining a patient
34. Close shot, baby
35. Close shot, medicines
36. Med shot, people living in a makeshift shelter by the side of the flood -waters
37. Close shot, a child’s hand being examined, which shows signs of a skin disease
38. Close shot, a child with an electronic thermometer under its arm
39. Wide shot, women and children sitting out in the open near their tent shelter
40. Wide shot, women and children standing outside their makeshift home
41. Wide shot, children playing in the dirty, stagnant flood waters
42. Wide shot, a family pulling all their belongings on a cart through waist deep flood water
43. Wide shot, people carrying children, walking on a road completely covered with flood water
44. Wide shot, makeshift shelters near the flood water
45. Wide shot, woman washing her dishes and clothes in the stagnant flood water
46. Wide shot, a woman carrying her rope bed on her head
47. Wide shot, two young children splashing in knee-deep, stagnant rain water
Pakistan’s southern Sindh Province, hit by devastating monsoon rains this year, has once again inundated millions of homes and displaced millions of people. Many of whom, have previously had little or no access to any form of health or medical assistance.
The most vulnerable among the displaced victims are children, pregnant women, young mothers and new born babies.
Raani is a 25 year old mother of three, who became widowed a month ago when her husband who had been suffering with tuberculosis died during the floods.
SOUNDBITE (Sindhi), Rani Mauji, Flood victim:
“We were fleeing our village when he fell down and died. We had to bury him along the way.”
Ten days after the death of her husband, Rani gave birth to a premature baby boy at the school where she and her family are now taking shelter. Her baby, Omji, has been sick ever since his birth.
SOUNDBITE (Sindhi), Rani Mauji, Flood victim:
“He has been suffering from severe diahorrea, and is not taking much milk. I don’t know why. We heard there was a medical team coming so we went to seek help.”
UNICEF together with its implementing partners are sending out mobile medical teams, with women health officers that visit every village providing medical assistance, immunization, vaccinations and bed nets to women and children besides pre and post natal care to mothers and their new born babies.
SOUNDBYTE (Urdu), Dr. Waheeda Memon, Woman Medical Officer, Maternal & Neo-natal Child Health Programme:
”When Rani came to me, her child was clinically premature and severely dehydrated. Rani is not producing enough breast milk, so the baby is not getting the required nutrition. There is hardly any awareness about hygiene either. Also, she is under considerable psychological trauma due to her husband’s death, who died during the floods.”
SOUNDBYTE (Urdu), Dr. Jairam Das, Communication Officer, National Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Program:
”Our services include ante-natal checkup, post-natal care and deliveries. We have set up referral centers where family planning services, tetanus vaccinations and immunization services are being provided. We are also conducting health education sessions where awareness is being given to communities on health and hygiene, because these displaced communities have no access to safe drinking water. Our main focus is on mothers and children. We are conducting these interventions in seven districts together with our UN partners.”
Though basic health interventions have begun, there is an urgent need to upscale, as many flood victims are suffering from chronic diahorrea, dysentery and skin conditions. Most of the children are malnourished.
Though emergency health interventions have been initiated in IDP camps across the flood affected areas of Tando Allah Yar, Mirpurkhas, Badin and Sanghar, much still needs to be done to equip and upscale the relief being provided to prevent the outbreak of life-threatening diseases or epidemics among the affected communities.
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