22 Mar 2011

TUNISIA-LIBYA BORDER / EMERGENCY VACCINE CAMPAIGN

A three-day emergency vaccination campaign led by the Tunisian Ministry of Health with support from UNICEF took place in Tunisia’s largest refugee camp. Vaccines for preventable disease were given to children six months to five years who crossed the border due to the conflict in Libya. UNICEF

Posted at: March 22, 2011 12:41 pm

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STORY: TUNISIA-LIBYA BORDER / EMERGENCY VACCINE CAMPAIGN 
TRT: 1.32
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
 
DATELINE: 16 MARCH 2011, SHOUSHA CAMP, RAS JDIR, TUNISIA
 
SHOTLIST:
 
1. Med shot, men arriving at the camp, walking and carrying bags on top of their heads

FILE / 10 MARCH 2011, RAS JDIR, TUNISIA

2. Med shot, man sitting with luggage around him

FILE / 16 MARCH 2011, SHOUSHA CAMP, RAS JDIR

3. Wide shot, general view of the camp
4. Close shot, Loveth talking to camera
5. Med shot, UNICEF worker holds 7-month-old baby Morris as she talks with his parents
6. Wide shot, UNICEF worker walks parents and baby to the vaccination tent
7. Wide shot, medical staff prepare vaccination tent
8. Med shot, nurse Filali Najet prepares the vaccines and talks to Loveth
9. Med shot, Morris' mother Loveth sits inside the vaccination tent holding her baby
10.  SOUNDBITE (English) Loveth Avenbuan, 21 old years, refugee:
"At the time where we were at the airport, there was no treatment, nothing, nothing. My baby was sick there and I was afraid. But since we came to this place they've been giving him the normal treatments, and we have been living fine"
11. Wide shot, nurse and colleague walk along the camp carrying a fridge containing vaccines
12. Med shot, nurse prepares the vaccine as a mother sits inside the tent holding her 5-day-old baby
13. Med shot, medical worker registers the vaccination as the nurse prepares an injection
14. Med shot, Morris, Loveth's baby, held by his mother, gets an injection
15. Med shot, nurse prepares the injection
16. Med shot, nurse takes the injection out from fridge
17. Wide shot, nurse prepares the vaccine as mother sits holding the baby
18. Med shot, nurse prepares injection
19. Med shot, the baby being vaccinated

FILE / 10 MARCH 2011, RAS JDIR, TUNISIA
20. Wide shots, tents in the camp

FILE / 16 MARCH 2011, SHOUSHA CAMP, RAS JDIR

21. Med shot, two women with baby standing in the camp

FILE / 10 MARCH 2011, RAS JDIR, TUNISIA

22. Med shot, men walking in the camp
23. Med shot, men carrying luggage
FILE / 16 MARCH 2011, SHOUSHA CAMP, RAS JDIR

24. Wide shot, girls playing in the camp
25. Med shot, mother holding baby

STORYLINE:
 
As the exodus of migrants from Libya into Tunisia continues, 21 year old Loveth, a Nigerian whose been living in Libya is relieved to have crossed the border with her family.

They spent two weeks in miserable conditions, waiting to be evacuated

Loveth's cousin died from sleeping in the bitter cold outside the Tripoli airport and her 7 month old son fell extremely sick.

They're now being escorted to a clinic in the Shousha camp on the Tunisian-Libyan border.

Her son will be vaccinated as part an emergency vaccination campaign led by the Tunisian Health Ministry with support from UNICEF.

SOUNDBITE (Nigerian) Loveth Avenbuan, 21 old years, refugee:
"At the time where we were at the airport, there was no treatment, nothing, nothing. My baby was sick there and I was afraid. But since we came to this place they've been giving him the normal treatments, and we have been living fine"

Teams of doctors were called in from neighboring towns to vaccinate children up to the age of 5 in an effort to prevent a possible outbreak of disease.

More than 50 children were vaccinated against diseases like tetanus and hepatitis during the 3 day campaign

Filali Najet, a Tunisian nurse from a regional hospital in the south of the country, is part of a team that went from tent to tent to vaccinate the children.

Amongst those they visited was Meriam a Somali woman whose baby was born in the camp 5 days ago.

Today, there are more than 400 families are living in this transit camp. But with the situation in Libya going from bad to worse, the numbers are only expected to rise and so is the need for urgent medical care.