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SOUTH SUDAN / CHRISTMAS BABIES
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / CHRISTMAS BABIES
TRT: 1:35
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 DECEMBER, 2013, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Close up, baby and mother’s hand.
2. Wide shot, mother, baby and nurse.
3. Med shot, nurse.
4. Med shot, baby
5. Med shot, mother and baby.
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Phok Chanthy, Chief Medical Officer, Cambodian Level II Hospital:
“So far we have thirty one, thirty one babies that live in Cambodian Level II Hospital. Thirty one.”
7. Med shot, female ward door.
8. Wide shot, mother and baby sitting.
9. Close up, baby.
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Major Nour Sarin, Surgeon Cambodian Level II Hospital:
“Yes today I very happy. I born three girl babies in the Level II Cambodian Hospital. I very happy. They born today girl baby in Christmas Day. I very happy.”
11. Close up, baby
12. Med shot, baby, father and mid-wife.
13. Wide shot, baby’s mother being wheeled down the hallway.
Three babies were born on Christmas day in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Level II Clinic in country's capitol Juba.
All three babies born today were girls and by the end of the day officials at the clinic expect a fourth one.
Chief Medical Officer at the Clinic, Colonel Phok Chanthy said that they have assisted in the births of a lot of children since the conflict began and the IDP camp was created in the compound.
“So far we have thirty one, thirty one babies that live in Cambodian Level II Hospital. Thirty one.”
The Clinic has been treating serious injury cases since the conflict began over a week ago.
With the number of displaced in the UNMISS camps in tens of thousands, many more babies are likely be born here before the conflict ends and people are able to return to their homes.
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