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STORY: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL
TRT: 1.47
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH /NATS
DATELINE: 1 DECEMBER 2014, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
1. Wide shot, outside view of Bangui Pediatric hospital
2. Med shot, mothers washing children’s clothes on hospital grounds
3. Med shot, mothers and children in malnutrition wards
4. Med shot, children in malnutrition wards
5. Close up, mother breastfeeding her malnourished baby
6. Wide shot, mothers and children in malnutrition wards
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr. Jean Chrysostome Gody, Director of Bangui's pediatric hospital:
“All our programs like the one against malaria were affected because the personal left; there was no more management of medication, no more distribution of mosquito nets. We saw a return of serious malaria cases; where we saw a mortality rate of less than 5% before the crisis and more than 10% now. Something that also happened was a spike in severe malnutrition cases.”
8. Various shots, children in malnutrition ward
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr. Jean Chrysostome Gody, Director of Bangui's pediatric hospital:
“In terms of surgery, we had the help of certain partners, especially Emergency, which helped us take care of all the trauma cases of gunshot wounds. So we were able to operate on a significant number of children and save a great number of them. I can say that we had less than 3 % death rate with that help.”
10. Med shot, mothers and children in malnutrition wards
11. Wide shot, mothers and children in malnutrition ward
With more than 2 million children caught in the violence in the Central African Republic, a pediatric hospital in Bangui struggles to provide treatment for the youngest victims of the fighting.
In a courtyard on the hospital grounds, tents have been set up to deal with the influx of malnourished children who have fled the conflict with their parents.
Hospital’s director, Dr. Jean Chrysostome Gody said that all previous gains against diseases like malaria have been reversed and where the malaria mortality rate before the conflict was under 5%, it has now spiked to over 10% of cases.
Severe malnutrition is also on the rise.
Since the beginning of the conflict, the paediatric hospital became a war hospital, treating gunshot wounds and other trauma cases.
Dr. Gody said that help of international partners was crucial and they “were able to operate on a significant number of children and save a great number of them.
He said, "I can say that we had less than 3 % death rate with that help.”
UNICEF is supporting the Bangui Paediatric Hospital with medication, nutrition treatment programmes, renovation of the surgical theatre and construction of a new outpatient unit. In addition, UNICEF is supplying a new generator, an X-ray machine and is providing food for inpatient children and health personnel.
