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SOMALIA / FAMINE
STORY: SOMALIA / FAMINE
TRT: 02:37
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONEA
LANGUAGES: SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 23-24 OCTOBER 201, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
1. Med shot, father and child sitting inside their tent, child crying
2. Close up, child’s hands
3. Close up, child’s face
4. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Hasan Abdi Mohamed, Father:
“The child has a constant fever with blisters on his skin. He’s been sick for three months but it is only this month that his body has become swollen.”
5. Med shot, father with child at Therapeutic Centre
6. Close up, health worker examines child’s feet
7. Close up, child’s face
8. Med shot, mother washing dishes with children sitting around her
9. Close up, child in mother’s lap
10. Wide shot, father walking though IDP camp
11. Wide shot, father walking through IDP camp from behind
12. Med shot, father with child at Therapeutic centre
13. Close shot, child’s arm being measured
14. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdullahi Mohamed Ibrahim, Head Nurse, SAACID:
“He was brought in by some of the outreach staff in a really bad state. He had Severe Acute Malnutrition, which is the worst kind. We gave him treatment and showed the parents how to follow a regime, and the child has improved, going from severe malnutrition to moderate in a short period.”
15. Med shot, women with children in line
16. Close shot, child in mothers arms
17. Med shot, mother putting child into weighing scale
18. Wide shot, mothers and children sitting at Therapeutic Centre
19. Close shot, child in mother’s arms
20. SOUNDBITE (Somali), Mohamed Abdi, Health worker, SAACID:
“Malnutrition has become something widespread, if you receive 5 children, 4 will be malnourished. The rate of malnutrition in Mogadishu is increasing in some areas most of the children are malnourished.”
21. Med shot, IDP camp in the rain
22. Close shot, child looking through door of hut in rain
23. Med shot, health worker measures child’s arm to test him for malnutrition
24. Close shot, child sitting in mother’s lap
Three year old Ismael Hassan and his family stays in this small shelter in an internally displaced persons camp in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
SOUNDBITE ( Somali) Hasan Abdi Mohamed, Father:
“The child has a constant fever with blisters on his skin. He’s been sick for three months but it is only this month that his body has become swollen.”
Ismael has a form of Severe Acute Malnutrition called Kwashiokor, the result of a dangerous deficiency of protein, minerals and vitamins, and leads to a loss of body fat and muscle tissue.
Just two months ago, three year-old Moktar Mohamed was dying. He came with his parents and 4 siblings by foot and truck from middle Shabelle, over 100 kilometres north of the capital.
Farmers, they lost all of their livestock and crops to the drought. When they arrived, little Moktar was skin and bones.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdullahi Mohamed Ibrahim, Head Nurse, SAACID:
“He was brought in by some of the outreach staff in a really bad state. He had Severe Acute Malnutrition, which is the worst kind. We gave him treatment and showed the parents how to follow a regime, and the child has improved going from severe malnutrition to moderate in a short period.”
Since the famine was declared in July, until late September, over 110,000 children in the region were admitted to UNICEF-supported therapeutic centres for severe and moderate acute malnutrition. Despite these efforts, the numbers of children suffering from malnutrition is still rising.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mohamed Abdi, Health worker, SAACID:
“Malnutrition has become something widespread, if you receive 5 children, 4 will be malnourished. The rate of malnutrition in Mogadishu is increasing, in some areas most of the children are malnourished.”
Even as the rains hit Mogadishu, drought plagues much of the south. And hunger and disease continue to be daily companions to families and their children.
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