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STORY: SOMALIA / MALNUTRITION CHILDREN
TRT: 02:28
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: MUST CREDIT UNICEF
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 2, 3, 10 APRIL 2017, BAIDOA, SOMALIA / 12 APRIL 2017, GALKAYO, SOMALIA
2 APRIL 2017, BAIDOA, SOMALIA
1. Various shots, donkey carriages pass on road outside UNICEF-supported Cholera Treatment Center, Bay Regional Hospital
2. Wide shot, entrance to Cholera Treatment Clinic
3. Various shots, nurse tending to baby
10 APRIL 2017, IDP CAMP, BAIDOA, SOMALIA
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Fontaine, Director, Office of Emergency Programmes, UNICEF:
“We have not declared a famine yet but we are very close. Very serious malnutrition, probably more than 200,000 children are going to suffer from severe malnutrition in the country and now we have cholera on top of this. So we really need to pull all our capacities and resources together to stop this.”
2 APRIL 2017, BAIDOA, SOMALIA
5. Various shots, nurse tending to baby
12 APRIL 2017, UNICEF-SUPPORTED GALKAYO GENERAL HOSPITAL, STABILISATION CENTER, GALKAYO
5. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Howa Gali Yusuf, Mother of Cholera-infected Baby:
“We lost all of our livestock because of the drought and drought was caused by no rain. Most of our live-stock was goats and, if there is no rain, the goats cannot survive because they cannot graze and there is no water for drinking. We travelled with others who suffered from this drought and we came to the IDP camp. After, we got sick and then we were referred to this hospital.”
2 APRIL 2017, BAIDOA, SOMALIA
6. Various shots, nurse feeding child
7. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mohammed Hassan, Father of Cholera-infected Baby:
“When I was in Baidoa, I found out my child had diarrhoea. She drank water and that is the source of the contamination”
8. Med shot, mothers with babies
9. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mohammed Hassan, Father of Cholera-infected Baby:
“Diarrhoea is affecting everyone here. It is all over the country.”
10. Med shot, mothers with babies
11. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mohammed Hassan, Father of Cholera-infected Baby:
“Before he used to be very sick but now he looks good. He is okay now.
12. Various shots, doctor talking to patient
3 APRIL 2017, BAIDOA, SOMALIA
13. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Asma Ufurow, 13-year-old:
“We were affected by the drought, we had nothing to eat and our farms were also affected by the drought. On the way, we feared Al Shabaab and hyenas. We were told in Baidoa, there was distribution [of food and water] and that is why we came.”
14. Various shots, camp
As a result of the extreme drought that has hit Somalia, a devastating outbreak of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea has ravaged the country.
Six years since famine was declared in parts of south-central Somalia, the country is once again on the brink of catastrophe. This time the drought is more widespread and has resulted in a chronic shortage of clean water. In some areas, water prices have increased six-fold.
In response, UNICEF and partners have scaled up their response to combat the cholera and acute watery diarrhoea crisis by providing an integrated package of nutrition, water, sanitation and emergency health ser-vices. In 2017, UNICEF aims to reach 1.5 million people with access to clean water and over 700,000 Soma-lis with emergency health care services.
