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STORY: PAKISTAN / CHARSADDAH DISTRICT FLOODS
TRT: 2.18
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / PUSHTO / NATS
DATELINE: 17 AUGUST 2010; KKYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
1. Wide shot, water gushing under a bridge
2. Wide shot, flood water in residential areas
3. Med shot, stagnant water with flies
4. Close up, flies on stagnant waters
5. Wide shot, man going in his house filled with flood waters
6. Med shot, People walking through flood waters
7. Wide shot, people walking through water
8. Wide shot, schools being used as shelter, people’s belongings sprawled on school grounds
9. Pan left, displaced families in school
10. SOUNDBITE (Pushto) Amina:
“Flood waters entered our home in the middle of the night. We ran to save our lives. We have lost our home. Nothing is left. Now my son is ill. He has diarrhoea and has lost a lot of weight”.
11. Wide shot, Health workers entering a class room
12. Med shot, health worker giving TT vaccination to Amina
13. Close up, TT vaccination to Amina
14. Wide shot, TT vaccination to Amina
15. Med shot, health worker sorting medicines
16. Various shots, administering of polio vaccine
17. Close up, measles vaccine
18. Wide shot, health workers sitting down among women to health session
19. Close up, Health workers disseminating key health messages with the help of leaflets, brochures
20. Wide shot, women and children listening to the health messages during the sessions
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Fazale Akbar, Charsadda District Health Officer:
“A huge population is affected; so for the first few days it was very difficult to reach all the areas.”
22. Wide shot, families coming inside the school
23. Med shot, women sharing their problems with UNICEF worker
24. Med shot, injured child with father and brother
25. Med shot, Fazal Muhammad, Leader Boy scouts giving loud speaker announcements about vaccinations and health camp
26. Pan left, families in the health camp check by doctors
27. Close up, newborn in mother’s lap
In the aftermath of the devastating floods that swept across Pakistan, women and children are facing perilous conditions.
Flood waters have left behind a trail of colossal destruction affecting more than 20 million people.
Collapsed bridges and roads are hampering relief efforts and the worst affected areas are still inaccessible by road.
In Charsaddah district, the local high school is refuge to more than 500 displaced families.
Nineteen year old Amina has taken refuge in the school with her family.
SOUNDBITE (Pushto) Amina:
“Flood waters entered our home in the middle of the night. We ran to save our lives. We have lost our home. Nothing is left. Now my son is ill. He has diarrhoea and has lost a lot of weight”.
Amina is four months pregnant and has come to the health center to get medical assistance for her son and herself.
The UNICEF supported health center and mobile health teams are providing life-saving vaccinations, checkups and essential medicines to avert maternal and child deaths.
The risk of outbreak of deadly diseases is high and women and children are the most vulnerable. The aim is to immunize all children under 5 year old age.
Health workers are providing vital information during health and hygiene sessions how prevent water borne disease and special care during these dire conditions.
But the needs are as widespread as the destruction.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Fazale Akbar, Charsadda District Health Officer:
“A huge population is affected; so for the first few days it was very difficult to reach all the areas.”
Despite the rapid deployment of emergency relief, there is still a shortage of the most basic supplies, shelter, food and safe drinking water and the needs will only continue to grow as the swelling waters move south.
It is a fight against time. Fast action is needed to provide life saving interventions
And to prevent the loss of even more lives.
