1. Wide shot, camp site with IDP board
2. Wide shot, camp site
3. Various shots, camp site with children and women around 4. Med shot, people sitting by camps
5. Close up, women with covered face looking into camera
6. Close up, face of Guduudo Galinle
7. Med shot, Guduudo Galinle sitting with five children
8. Close up, Guduudo Galinle's fifth child, Fartun
9. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Guduudo Galinle, Displaced Mother:
"The best way to deliver is at the hospital because you get support if anything happens. I deliver at home because sometimes I’m just not ready but it’s always safer to go to hospital."
10. Wide shot, Galkayo Medical Centre (GMC) hospital entrance
11. Med shot, GMC hospital entrance sign
12. Med shot, Dr. Abdulkadir Giama entering patients room
13. Various shots, pregnant patient on bed
14. Med shot, people walking towards GMC
15. Wide shot, inside GMC eating room
16. Med shot, woman with injured hand in GMC
17. Wide shot, Dr. Abdulkadir Giama entering patients room
18. Med shot, patient in bed 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Abdulkadir Giama, Chief Doctor, Galkayo Medical Centre (GMC):
“We have to take care of the patient during pregnancy and let them have good ante-natal care where you can identify the high-risk patient, monitor them during the pregnancy, during the labour and after labour.”
19. Various shots, young doctor examining patient
20. Close up, measuring blood pressure
21. Various shots, x-rays
22. Various shots, medical machines
23. Wide shot, surgery room
24. Med shot, GMC pharmacy sign
25. Various shots, man receiving medication inside GMC pharmacy
26. Various shots, Sarruro Robow Ishak walking into camp and sitting with Guduudo Galinle and her baby
27. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Sarruro Robow Ishak, Midwife: "The risk expectant women faced during delivery was very high as we didn’t have enough skills and materials. Before we were just using a razor blade, but GMC trained us and gave us complete safe delivery kits including plastic sheets and disinfectant soap."
28. Various shots, Sarruro Robow Ishak and Guduudo Galinle speaking
29. Med shot, Dr. Abdulkadir Giama with baby patient in GMC hospital
30. Med shot, baby in GMC hospital
31. Wide shot, GMC helpers covering baby with mosquito net
32. Med shot, Guduudo Galinle sitting with fifth child, Fartun
33. Close up, Guduudo Galinle's fifth child, Fartun
34. Various shots, hospital nurse carrying new baby to camera

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Storyline

For decades now, life in Somali has been all about surviving. Surviving war, famine and violence.

Conflict, the kind the country has witnessed, exacts a toll on everyone, and and all the more so on women.

A few weeks ago, Guduudo Galinle gave birth to her fifth child, a daughter she called Fartun.

Her other children were all born at home. But this time there were complications. Mother and child were at risk. So Guduudo was rushed to the Galkayo Medical Centre (GMC).

SOUNDBITE (Somali) Guduudo Galinle, Displaced Mother:
"The best way to deliver is at the hospital because you get support if anything happens. I deliver at home because sometimes I’m just not ready but it’s always safer to go to hospital."

The Galkayo Medical Centre was set up by Doctor Abdulkadir Giama, in 1997.

Initially it was a private clinic specializing in motherhood care, but overwhelming need changed that. In 2005, the Center opened its doors to internally displaced families throughout Galkayo.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Abdulkadir Giama, Chief Doctor, Galkayo Medical Centre (GMC):
“We have to take care of the patient during pregnancy and let them have good ante-natal care where you can identify the high-risk patient, monitor them during the pregnancy, during the labour and after labour.”

The life-saving support of donors, particularly from the Arab Emirates, has helped bring modern facilities – labs, x-ray machine and mobile clinic – to the centre. It is now a full-fledged referral hospital for most of Somalia.

The donations also allow help to beyond the walls of the hospital. Saruuro Robow Ishak has been a mid-wife for over ten years. She is self-taught. But recently she was training at the centre on safe delivery.

SOUNDBITE (Somali) Sarruro Robow Ishak, Midwife: "The risk expectant women faced during delivery was very high as we didn’t have enough skills and materials. Before we were just using a razor blade, but GMC trained us and gave us complete safe delivery kits including plastic sheets and disinfectant soap."

And in emergencies, she can count on help from the Galkayo Medical Centre.

For Dr. Giama, the support the centre has received has been vital.

Guduudo and Fartun are home now, proof that access to health care that was not there before, saves lives.