STORY: Measles vaccination campaign launched in Somalia

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DATELINE: 24 APRIL 2017, BAIDOA, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST

1. Wide shot of the immunisation centre at Beerta Muuri camp in Baidoa.

2. Medium shot of the immunisation centre at the camp in Baidoa.
3. Medium shot of the Measles outbreak response banner at the immunisation
centre in the camp in Baidoa.
4. Wide shot of parents with their children queuing at the immunisation centre
5. Medium shot of parents with their children queuing at the immunisation
centre.
6. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) JAYNE MBAKAYA United Nations Childrens
Fund (UNICEF) PROGRAMME MANAGER.
Today we begin the measles vaccination campaign here in
Baidoa, which has received and continues to take in many
thousands of families displaced by drought from other parts of
the country. This campaign is urgent. Among vaccine preventable
diseases, none is more deadly than measles. We already know of
at least 16 suspected cases in Baidoa, which means that the true
numbers are surely much higher.

7. Wide shot of Isak Ali Subag, the South West State Minister of Health
immunising a child.
8. Wide shot of Jayne Mbakaya, the UNICEF Programme Manager giving a child
a de-worming tablet mixed with water.
9. Medium shot of Jayne Mbakaya, the UNICEF Programme Manager giving a
child a de-worming tablet mixed with water. .
10. Close up shot of Jayne Mbakaya, the UNICEF Programme Managers hand
as she gives a child the vaccine.
11. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) JAYNE MBAKAYA UNICEF PROGRAMME
MANAGER.
We know that the measles can spread quickly in overcrowded
displacement camps and IDP settlements, of which there are so
many in Baidoa. And we know only too well from 2011 famine that
measles, combined with malnutrition and displacement, is a lethal
combination, especially for children. The only way to prevent
sickness and disease from measles is to make sure all children
receive vaccination.
12. Wide shot of some of the parents with their children arriving at the
immunisation centre.
13. Medium shot of parents with their children queuing at the immunisation
centre.
14. Medium shot of children with their parents as they wait to be immunised at the
immunisation centre.
15. Close up shot on one of the children brought for immunisation.
16. Medium shot of other children as they wait to be immunised.
17. Wide shot of a mother holding her child to get immunised.
18. Medium shot of another child being immunised.
19. SOUNDBITE (SOMALI): YAHYE MOALIM - PARENT
Today the Ministry of Health of South West state and UNICEF
brought us vaccinations, mainly measles vaccinations that we
were in need of. We were in desperate need of vaccination as
many of our children are sick.

20. Wide shot of women seated on the bench as they wait to get their children
immunised.
21. Medium shot of women seated on the bench as they wait to get their children
immunised.
22. Medium shot of children with their parents as they wait to get immunised.
23. Wide shot of another child getting immunised.
24. Medium shot of a parent comforting her child after being immunised.
25. Wide shot of another child getting immunised.
26. Medium shot of the child getting injected with the vaccine.
27. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): ISAK ALI SUBAG MINISTER OF HEALTH,
SOUTH WEST STATE
The major challenges in the health sector is that our current medical
facilities were not prepared to facilitate medical services in this huge
population. There is a significant increase in the number of IDPs
coming every day, every week, every month, so every facility is
overwhelmed and overpopulated. So our current medical staff and the
facilities we have in place are not really prepared to provide services.
We need to increase the capacity of the medical facilities, if you could
increase the capacity or even think about establishing other medical
facilities, even if it is temporary, for more outreach mobile teams to
cover the health services needed.

28. Medium shot of a child being vaccinated.

STORY: Measles vaccination campaign launched in Somalia

Baidoa, 24 April 2017 - Somalia today launched a measles immunization

campaign that seeks to vaccinate 110,000 children under the age of five
against the deadly disease in the southern and central regions of the country.
The campaign is being conducted by the federal ministry of health with
support from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations
Childrens Fund (UNICEF) and other humanitarian partners. It will also
provide vitamin A supplements and de-worming tablets to children who have
been severely affected by Somalias devastating drought.

The launch was held at the Beerta Muuri camp for internally displaced
persons (IDPs) in Baidoa, the capital of South West State where more than
100,000 people have arrived in search of humanitarian assistance. Nearly
30,000 children are expected to be vaccinated in Baidoa this week.

This campaign is urgent. Among vaccine preventable diseases, none is more

deadly than measles. We already know of at least 16 suspected cases in
Baidoa, which means that the true numbers are surely much higher, said
UNICEF programme manager Jayne Mbakaya.

Nearly 5,700 cases of suspected measles have been reported nationwide

since the start of 2017, which surpasses the total number for all of last year.

Present at todays launch were the South West state Minister of Health Isak
Ali Subag, the state Minister of Information Ugas Hassan, and the state
Minister of Youth Abdullahi Ali.

Minister Subag thanked the UN and humanitarian partners for their support of
the vaccination campaign and appealed for more assistance to enable South
West state health officials to reach vulnerable communities in rural areas of
the state.

He noted that most of the beneficiaries targeted by the vaccination campaign

are IDPs who fled drought-stricken areas only to be exposed to various
communicable diseases in the overcrowded settlement camps.

The major challenge in the health sector is that our current medical facilities
were not prepared to deal with the problem of this magnitude, and as such
they are overwhelmed. There is an increase in the number of IDPs coming in
every day, every week and every month so every facility is overwhelmed, the
South West state health minister observed.

He emphasized the need to increase the capacity of medical staff, which

could extend to the establishment of temporary medical facilities and mobile
clinics to address the health emergency.

According to the latest drought response report by the United Nations Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), around 599,000
people have been displaced in Somalia due to drought since November 2016.
Over half of Somalias entire population about 6.2 million -- is facing acute
food insecurity, and water-borne and infectious diseases like cholera and
measles are spreading.