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STORY: WASHINGTON / AFGHANISTAN MATERNAL DEATHS
TRT: 2.22
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2010, WASHINGTON DC / FILE
RECENT, WASHINGTON DC
1. Med shot, World Bank headquarters
WASHINGTON DC, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
2. Wide shot, panel participants
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Suraya Dalil, Minister of Health, Afghanistan
“ Afghan has very high maternal mortality, every thirty minutes a woman dies in Afghanistan from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth and the lifetime risk is one in 9 women dying from maternal causes. maternal mortality is not only a health issue, it is a social economic issue, it is a developmental issue and it is a human rights issue, and I believe in order to have a prosperous Afghanistan and a stable Afghanistan, maternal health and childhood is a fundamental necessity for that.”
FILE / UNAMA / DATE UNKNOWN, AFGHANISTAN
4. Wide shot, mothers at the maternity room at Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul
5. Zoom out, Dr. with baby in surgery room
6. Close up, baby with oxygen mask
7. Med shot, baby in incubator
WASHINGTON DC, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, World Bank:
“The International development association, the arm of the world bank that helps the 79 poorest countries with grants and soft credits, has achieved some amazing results, in the past decade, we have provided prenatal care for 2 million women, we have provided 47 million people with health care packages that have improved their lives so we have had some concrete results on the ground, in countries across the globe, I think that what we need to do is to work on the reproductive health plan that we have, to assist countries, we have decided to focus on 59 countries, across the world, where we can scale up the interventions, that make a difference and I think that is what we should do.”
FILE / UNAMA / DATE UNKNOWN, AFGHANISTAN
9. Tilt down, from incubator to baby
10. Wide shot, ward
Afghan Health Minister Suraya Dalil and World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said they hoped maternal and child health tops the agenda of next week's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit in New York.
Speaking at a panel discussion at the World Bank headquarters in Washington Suraya Dalil, Afghanistan’s Health Minister said that Afghanistan had a very high maternal mortality. “Every thirty minutes a woman dies in Afghanistan from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth and the lifetime risk is one in 9 women dying from maternal causes,” she said.
Dalil added that she believed that in order to have a prosperous and stable Afghanistan, better maternal and childhood health was a fundamental necessity.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Bank’s Managing Director said that reducing maternal mortality rates is key to development.
She said that in the past decade, they had provided prenatal care for two million women, and forty seven million people with health care packages that had improved the quality of life of many people.
A new World Bank report prepared for the MDG review summit opening next Monday says that developing countries were making considerable progress in overcoming poverty until the recent food, fuel and financial crises.
