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DR CONGO / MALARIA
STORY: DR CONGO / MALARIA
TRT: 2.30
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH /NATS
DATELINE: 25 APRIL 2012, KATANGA PROVINCE, DR CONGO
1. Various shots, Jolie with baby at health clinic
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Lusa Kaya, Head of Kasamba Health Centre:
“It’s terrible. This is not easy for patients to pay this amount and sometimes they say ‘I can’t pay for this’, and they go back to the village and take traditional medicine.”
3. Various shots, health clinic bed net distribution
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Sylvie Fouet, UNICEF DRC Deputy Representative:
“By launching this strategic partnership, we hope to reduce the death of children by twenty percent. In DRC Congo, malaria is the first killer of children and bed nets are the most efficient and effective way of reducing malaria.”
5. Various shots, bed nets being loaded
6. SOUNDBITE (English) KalilSagno, UNICEF Health Specialist:
“Katanga has the same surface as France. So this is one thing that the country is big like a continent. You have rivers everywhere and it is very difficult to have the transportation from one side to another side.”
7. Various shots, bed net distribution
8. SOUNDBITE (English) MoïseKatumbiChapwe, Governor Katanga Province:
“There is a big challenge on treating malaria. It’s good today they are donating the mosquito nets. But you need to accompany the donation of the mosquito nets with the drainage in the towns because what is bringing mosquito, it’s the water.”
9. Various shots, standing water
Jolie brought her two year old daughter Angie to the Kasamba Health Centre when she developed a high fever and anaemia.
She has been diagnosed with malaria and is being treated.
Malaria is one of the major causes of death for children under five in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Those who are lucky enough to be treated, especially in poor rural areas such as this, are often unable to pay the fees.
SOUNDBITE (French) Lusa Kaya, Head of Kasamba Health Centre
“It’s terrible. This is not easy for patients to pay this amount and sometimes they say ‘I can’t pay for this’, and they go back to the village and take traditional medicine.”
Sleeping under a bed net is one of the simplest and most effective ways of preventing malaria.
This World Malaria Day UNICEF and its partners are distributing nearly fourteen million insecticide treated nets.
SOUNDBITE (French) Sylvie Fouet, UNICEF DRC Deputy Representative:
“By launching this strategic partnership, we hope to reduce the death of children by twenty percent. In DRC Congo, malaria is the first killer of children and bed nets are the most efficient an effective way of reducing malaria.”
This campaign, which was launched in Katanga Province provides enormous logistical challenges.
SOUNDBITE (English)KalilSagno, UNICEF Health Specialist
“Katanga has the same surface as France. So this is one thing that the country is big like a continent. You have rivers everywhere and it is very difficult to have the transportation from one side to another side.”
The bed net distribution is one important step in stopping malaria. But much remains to be done in this vast country with an under developed healthcare system.
SOUNDBITE (English) MoïseKatumbiChapwe, Governor Katanga Province
“There is a big challenge on treating malaria. It’s good today they are donating the mosquito nets. But you need to accompany the donation of the mosquito nets with the drainage in the towns because what is bringing mosquito, it’s the water.”
While rebuilding the country’s infrastructure and social services will take time, the distribution of bed nets will have an immediate impact on the lives of Congolese families …and children like Angie will not need to be treated for this preventable illness.
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