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SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL UPDATE
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL UPDATE
TRT: 02:18
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ ARABIC/ NATS
DATELINE: 27 JANUARY 2014, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, civilians walking inside protection of civilians
2. Med. shot, UN Police directing women
3. Wide shot, protection of civilians’ camp view
4. Med. shot, children
5. Wide shot, UN Clinic
6. Med. shot, IDP women and UN clinic sign post
7. Med. shot, mother registering
8. Wide shot, UN Doctor attending to a patient
9. Med. shot, mother and baby receiving medication
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rosa James, Displaced mother of four
“Some men were fighting in the camp and one of them hit the baby on the chest and we altogether fell down. My baby is in pain and didn’t sleep last night.”
11. Close up, sick baby
12. Med. shot, Dr. Meroni Abraham examining baby
13. Close up, hands of doctor prescribing medicine
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Maroni Abraham
“We are seeing more than two hundred and fifty cases a day and during such period, resources are difficult. So we are trying our best to put up our request to the medical section in Juba, we are trying to use what resources we have in the clinic efficiently but still we are having problems with pediatrics drugs”.
15. Med, shot, woman sitting
16. Close up, injured thigh
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tapagan Amum Padiet , IDP
“What happened is that, I was shot on my thigh on Tuesday at home when we were running for our lives to take protection in UN. The forces fought and at cross fire I was injured.”
18. Med. shot, women and children
18. Wide shot, patients in the waiting room
Malakal, the capital city of oil-rich Upper Nile State, was recaptured from the rebels after violent clashes on Monday (20 Jan). Thousands of civilians however, remain homeless, and in need of assistance.
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) now hosts some 27,000 people – mostly women and children in its Malakal base offering shelter, food and medical assistance to those in need.
Rosa James, a displaced mother of four, came to the UN clinic with her one-month old baby.
“Some men were fighting in the camp and one of them hit the baby on the chest and we altogether fell down. My baby is in pain and didn’t sleep last night.”- explained James.
The UNMISS Level One Clinic was originally set to look after no more but 25 adult patients per day. Now, the clinic provide health care to more than 250 patients daily including children, said Dr. Meroni Abraham.
“We are seeing more than two hundred and fifty cases a day and during such period, resources are difficult. So we are trying our best to put up our request to the medical section in Juba, we are trying to use what resources we have in the clinic efficiently but still we are having problems with pediatrics drugs” – said Abraham.
Tapagan Amum Padiet got wounded in leg, while fleeing fighting in the town. Fortunately, she was able to walk to the UN Protection area and is now receiving treatment at the UN clinic.
“What happened is that, I was shot on my thigh on Tuesday at home when we were running for our lives to take protection in UN. The forces fought and at cross fire I was injured.”
Overall, UNMISS is sheltering more than 70,000 civilians in total of eight of the mission’s bases since conflict erupted between President Salva Kiir’s forces and those of former deputy president Riek Machar on 15 December.
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