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STORY: LIBYA / REFUGEES HEALTHCARE CENTRE
TRT: 2:06
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /ARABIC /NATS
DATELINE: 11 JUNE 2020, TRIPOLI, LIBYA
1. Various shots, health professionals helping Alhadi’s toddler who has stomach pain.
2. Med shot, med worker taking the temperature of people going into the clinic
3. Wide shot, exterior of the clinic
4. Wide shot, UNHCR doctor speaking to refugees at the clinic
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Meftah Lahwel, UNHCR: “We are working here in this facility to provide free of charge health care access for all, regardless of their background.”
6. Various shots, people in waiting room
7. Wide shot, people waiting outside
8. Med shot, nurse sorting medicaments
9. Various shots, people in waiting room
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Alhadi, Sudanese Refugee:
“This is a very good thing to find a place that is close by for someone to support themselves with this clinic and treatments”.
11. Wide shot, women sitting outside of the clinic
12. Med shot, woman with baby outside the clinic
With new equipment and training, a medical centre providing essential healthcare to over 30,000 refugees and Libyans which had stopped working at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, reopened its doors, much to the relief of the people who need it the most.
While still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, some movement restrictions in Libya have recently been eased. Nighttime and weekend curfews are still in place though and much of daily life in the country remains on pause. Only a few stores have reopened, and most businesses and public buildings are closed.
Access to health care remains a challenge for many. But in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown, a primary healthcare centre in the Gergaresh neighborhood of Tripoli – serving a catchment area of at least 30,000 people, including high concentrations of refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa – has re-opened, thanks to the support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its partner the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
The centre, which is providing medical and protection services to those in need, is one of just three Primary Health Care Centres (PHCCs) that are currently operating in the whole municipality, an area where an estimated 450,000 people live.
