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KENYA / POLIO
STORY: KENYA / POLIO
SOURCE: UNICEF
TRT: 3:07
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 16-18 AUGUST 2013, DADAAB REFUGEE CAMPS, DADAAB, KENYA
1. Close-up, Fatuma Mohamed Hassan, 7 months. She is the first polio case in Kenya’s outbreak since May.
2. Tilt down, Fatuma’s mother, Mad Ahmed
3. SOUNDBITE (Somali), Mad Ahmed, mother of Fatuma:
“One night she started having a fever, and also vomiting. We went to the health post, and the doctors took her to the main hospital in Hagadera. Then she was paralyzed. They checked the stool and told us it was polio.”
4. Tilt up, Fatuma’s paralyzed legs
5. Wide shot, Fatuma and her mother and sister inside their hut in Hagadare refugee camp in Dadaab
6. Wide shot, one of the refugee camps in Dadaab
7. Med shot, people next to their huts
8. Med shot, a mother and children next to their huts
9. Med shot, Awil Awad Abdullahi, 19 years old. He is another victim in the outbreak.
10. Wide shot, Awil tries to stand up with the help of others in front of his home in one of the refugee camps in Dadaab.
11. Med shot, Awil standing with the help of a walker.
12. Tilt up, a vaccine box with “Kick polio out of Africa” logo carried by a vaccinator.
13. pan left, a vaccinator check finger marks of children during a house-to-house immunization round.
14. Close up, a child receives two drops of oral polio vaccine.
15. Close up, the child’s finger is marked to indicate he has been immunized.
16. Zoom in, a child hold by his mother is vaccinated against polio
17. Close up, the mother is also vaccinated
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Wardah Rashid, Vaccination team supervisor:
“Round one we had a little bit challenge. One of them was resistance from the community. But with the recurrent campaigns that we have been doing up to round four, the challenge has reduced. It is also because there is so much sensitization both in the radio, the Dadaab FM Radio, and our mobile mobilization team.”
19. Pan left, huts in one of the refugee camps in Dadaab.
20. Med shot, mother and baby
21. Med shot, a vaccination team go door-to-door
22. Med shot, a vaccinator talks to residents about the campaign
23. Close up, an old man’s finger is marked following his vaccination
24. Med shot, a console and a hand during a live show at Dadaab FM
25. Zoom in, radio show host answers a listener call
26. Close up, Imam Abdinoor Mohamed speaks during the live show
27. Close up, another guest of the live show
28. Wide shot, guests and host of the live show
29. SOUNDBITE (Somali), Abdinoor Mohamed, Imam:
“As a religious leader, it is my responsibility to tell the community what is right and what is wrong. So it is my responsibility to give them the right information about polio and how to fight the disease through immunization.”
30. Med shot, a vaccinator speaks to the members of a community.
31. Tilt up, child’s finger is checked for marks, and an old woman.
32. Close up, a child is vaccinated.
33. Close up, Imam Mohamed.
34. Med shot, a team of vaccinators.
35. Med shot, the team enters a household.
36. Tilt up, a resident speaks to the vaccinators.
37. Close up, a vaccinator keeps records of her team’s immunization activities.
38. Pan left, children look on as a vaccinator taking out a chalk to mark the household her team just visited.
39. Close-up, the vaccinator marks the household with a chalk.
40. Med shot, children’s fingers are checked for marks
41. Med shot, another group of children’s fingers are checked by a vaccinator
42. Close-up, a girl is vaccinated against polio
She is called the “index child”, the first victim in a polio outbreak that has been gripping Kenya since May.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mad Ahmed, mother of Fatuma:
“One night she started having a fever, and also vomiting. We went to the health post, and the doctors took her to the main hospital in Hagadera. Then she was paralyzed. They checked the stool and told us it was polio.”
Following Fatuma’s diagnosis, more polio cases have been confirmed, and the majority of them are from the Somali refugee camps in Dadaab.
The outbreak no only affects children, but also adults. Among them, is 19 year old Awil, who has never been immunized against polio before.
To contain the outbreak, immunization campaigns have been conducted around the country.
The efforts are especially intensified in and around the refugee camps where the population’s immunities are low. From children to adults, everyone here is set to be vaccinated against polio.
SOUNDBITE (English) Wardah Rashid, vaccination team supervisor:
“Round one we had a little bit challenge. One of them was resistance from the community. But with the recurrent campaigns that we have been doing up to round four, the challenge has reduced. It is also because there is so much sensitization both in the radio, the Dadaab FM Radio, and our mobile mobilization team.”
Today Dadaab FM is hosting a special live show. Imam Mohamed, together with experts from WHO and UNHCR, is here to talk about polio and answer questions from the listeners.
SOUNDBITE (Somali), Abdinoor Mohamed, Imam:
“As a religious leader, it is my responsibility to tell the community what is right and what is wrong. So it is my responsibility to give them the right information about polio and how to fight the disease through immunization.”
With more than 100 cases reported first in Somalia, then Kenya and lately Ethiopia, the once polio free Horn of Africa is now faced with a major crisis.
Years of conflict and insecurity have created a large number of un-immunized children. An estimated one million of them are extremely vulnerable to polio, and they will remain so until they are reached.
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