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STORY: IRAQ / RESETTLEMENT
TRT: 02:19
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 29 MAY 2016, QUSHTAPHA CAMP, IRAQ
29 MAY 2016, QUSHTAPHA CAMP, IRAQ
1. Various shots, Seoud packing children clothes and crying
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seoud, Syrian Refugee:
“It’s hard for me to leave my kids. Life’s beauty is in family and kids.”
3. Various shots, Seoud sitting against the wall
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seoud, Syrian Refugee:
“I was getting treated in Damascus and the (security) situation wasn’t good. I was living in Hassaka and it was hard for me to get there, so I said the best thing was for me to go to Kurdistan.”
5. Various shots, Seoud sitting against the wall
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seoud, Syrian Refugee:
“My father had to go back to Syria to sell his house so I can get treated here.”
7. Med shot, women
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seoud, Syrian Refugee:
“Now if they ask me to go back to treatment, I wouldn’t have the means.”
9. Various shots, Seoud looking at photos of his children on cell phone
10. Close up, Seoud
11. Various shots, Seoud walking
Seoud hadn’t seen his family in weeks. They fled Syria together two years ago, but his wife and children had to go back because he could no longer provide for them.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seoud, Syrian Refugee:
“It’s hard for me to leave my kids. Life’s beauty is in family and kids.”
Seoud has prostate cancer. He came to Iraq looking for safety and medical treatment.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seoud, Syrian Refugee:
“I was getting treated in Damascus and the (security) situation wasn’t good. I was living in Hassaka and it was hard for me to get there, so I said the best thing was for me to go to Kurdistan.”
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) would usually refer cancer patients like Seoud to a second party such as non-governmental organizations or ministries of health in the host countries. But as the economic situation in the Kurdish region of Iraq deteriorated, so did the public medical services provided by the government including services to the refugee population. Seoud had to pay for his own care.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seoud, Syrian Refugee:
“My father had to go back to Syria to sell his house so I can get treated here.”
Seoud sold everything he owned to pay for his treatment. His funds have been fully exhausted.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seoud, Syrian Refugee:
“Now if they ask me to go back to treatment, I wouldn’t have the means.”
He said the best hope for him and his family would be to resettle in another country. UNHCR has put him on the resettlement candidates’ list but the process takes time. Time Seoud might not have.
