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STORY: UNFPA / CHAD FLOODING
TRT: 02:26
SOURCE: UNFPA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNFPA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2024, BASILICA DISASTER SITE, HABENA DISTRICT, N’DJAMENA, CHAD
1. Wide shot, people walking in floods
2. Wide shot, people walking in floods
3. Wide shot, people riding in a boat
4. Wide shot, a group of people surrounded by flood water
5. Wide shot, a boat transporting food and household items
6. Wide shot, flooded village
7. Med shot, UNFPA midwives in a clinic
8. Med shot, a midwife
9. Med shot, three women in the clinic
10. Various shots, a midwife performing medical exams with a pregnant woman
11. Various shots, people walking in knee-high flood water
12. Various shots, flooded village and damaged buildings
13. Various shots, people riding boats
Widespread flooding across the West and Central African Region has triggered crisis for close to two million people with devastating consequences - Chad is one of the hardest-hit countries.
All of Chad’s 23 provinces have been impacted by intense floods brought on by severe rainfall. More than 550 people have died; 210,000 homes have been washed away; and around 432,000 hectares of land and 72,000 livestock destroyed. This will intensify food insecurity in a country that has already declared a food security and nutrition emergency in February, with 3.4 million people facing acute hunger. The floods have also damaged infrastructure and health facilities, with submerged roads and bridges restricting humanitarian access and the delivery of aid.
The extreme weather is yet another reminder of the brutal impacts of the climate emergency on women and girls. Many have lost everything, forced to flee their homes as the flood waters rose with the little they could carry.
Around 1.9 million people have been affected in Chad, including an estimated 85,000 pregnant women. Families are now sheltering in makeshift sites and schools, left without access to reproductive health services, including maternity care, clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, as diseases – diarrhea, malaria, respiratory and skin infections – rise.
Protection risks have also increased for women and girls in temporary sites, where they have little to no privacy, and when they venture outside to look for food and firewood in an unfamiliar environment.
UNFPA is on the ground, supporting the Ministry of Public Health and Prevention to provide reproductive health and protection services and hygiene supplies to affected people. Some 248 humanitarian midwives have been deployed to provide maternal healthcare services. Reproductive health supplies and equipment, including contraceptives and supplies for emergency obstetric care, have been distributed to health facilities. Close to 12,000 women and girls have received a kit containing basic hygiene items.
