IOM / BRAZIL INDIGENOUS MOBILE HEALTH UNITS
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STORY: IOM / BRAZIL INDIGENOUS MOBILE HEALTH UNITS
TRT: 03:36
SOURCE: IOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: APRIL 2023, SAKAO MORA, RORAIMA, BRAZIL
SHOTLIST:
1. Aerial shot, IOM mobile medical unit arriving at indigenous community
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Maria Chan, doctor, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“Our health work is important because IOM supports Brazil's unique health system, and precisely the indigenous communities do not have health centers within the communities specifically. Therefore, it is more complicated for these communities to access health services. So, when we provide this assistance, we provide health services to people who face such challenges.”
3. Wide shot, exterior, open school
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Graciela Nunez, Venezuelan migrant:
“I came from Venezuela for my health because I had pain in my stomach; although they gave me my treatment there, it did nothing. But now they gave me another treatment for the pain and for my eye that went under surgery. I also asked the doctor to do an examination in the laboratory. With this treatment, I want to recover to work with the people here.”
5. Various shots, IOM doctor, indigenous patients
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese), Maria Chan, doctor, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“They are people who need help, and they are people who receive me very well because they know that they are going to receive quality care, and that makes me very happy and makes me feel very good. I am proud of my chosen profession and proud to work for an organization that allows me to have contact with these communities, something I might not have had if it had been possible if I had had a job in a clinic in the city. "
7. Aerial shot, village
8. Various shots, Nunez, IOM doctor, children, indigenous patients, Chan
STORYLINE:
In Roraima, the Mobile Health Units of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) help bring medical assistance to Venezuelan indigenous people and their host communities in one of Brazil's hardest-to-reach areas.
The state of Roraima is the main gateway from Venezuela into Brazil for those leaving the country's ongoing economic and social crisis.
Many more than 400,000 Venezuelans living in Brazil entered the country via the northern State.
"Our health work is important because the indigenous communities do not have health centers within the communities specifically. Therefore, it is more complicated for these communities to access health services. So, when we provide this assistance, we provide health services to people who face such challenges,” said Maria Chan, IOM doctor, at the end of a long day of consultations.
To tackle this, IOM has decided to get medical staff on the move, traveling to the doorstep of those in need.
"Indigenous people are among the most vulnerable populations. These services change the lives of people with chronic diseases in remote communities; it eases their lives."
The mobile units are fully equipped to provide Venezuelan migrants, refugees, and host communities with much-needed health care, including essential treatment and medicines, once a month.
Two IOM Mobile Health Units are reaching the region's most vulnerable populations and training community health agents to provide primary care to rural patients.
Indigenous communities in the region may suffer from several chronic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, children's malnutrition, fungal skin infections, parasites, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Graciela Nunez, a Venezuelan migrant in Sakao Mota, a remote indigenous village hosting locals and Venezuelans, said, “I came from Venezuela for my health because I had pain in my stomach; although they gave me my treatment there, it did nothing. But now they gave me another treatment for the pain and for my eye that went under surgery. I also asked the doctor to do an examination in the laboratory. With this treatment, I want to recover to work with the people here.”
In 2018, a shortage of food and medicines, plus growing insecurity, pushed Nunez and her five-member family to leave their small Venezuelan community across the border.
They sold their belongings and crossed the boundary with several other Taurepang families.
Since then, the subsistence farming practiced in the host community has helped them to survive.
Last year, the IOM health team provided medical and psychological consultations to about 8,000 vulnerable migrants, including refugees and host communities across Roraima, an average of 30 people daily.
Medical care included general assessments, testing for STIs, COVID-19, blood glucose, pediatric medicine, and prenatal consultations.
TRT: 03:36
SOURCE: IOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: APRIL 2023, SAKAO MORA, RORAIMA, BRAZIL
SHOTLIST:
1. Aerial shot, IOM mobile medical unit arriving at indigenous community
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Maria Chan, doctor, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“Our health work is important because IOM supports Brazil's unique health system, and precisely the indigenous communities do not have health centers within the communities specifically. Therefore, it is more complicated for these communities to access health services. So, when we provide this assistance, we provide health services to people who face such challenges.”
3. Wide shot, exterior, open school
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Graciela Nunez, Venezuelan migrant:
“I came from Venezuela for my health because I had pain in my stomach; although they gave me my treatment there, it did nothing. But now they gave me another treatment for the pain and for my eye that went under surgery. I also asked the doctor to do an examination in the laboratory. With this treatment, I want to recover to work with the people here.”
5. Various shots, IOM doctor, indigenous patients
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese), Maria Chan, doctor, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“They are people who need help, and they are people who receive me very well because they know that they are going to receive quality care, and that makes me very happy and makes me feel very good. I am proud of my chosen profession and proud to work for an organization that allows me to have contact with these communities, something I might not have had if it had been possible if I had had a job in a clinic in the city. "
7. Aerial shot, village
8. Various shots, Nunez, IOM doctor, children, indigenous patients, Chan
STORYLINE:
In Roraima, the Mobile Health Units of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) help bring medical assistance to Venezuelan indigenous people and their host communities in one of Brazil's hardest-to-reach areas.
The state of Roraima is the main gateway from Venezuela into Brazil for those leaving the country's ongoing economic and social crisis.
Many more than 400,000 Venezuelans living in Brazil entered the country via the northern State.
"Our health work is important because the indigenous communities do not have health centers within the communities specifically. Therefore, it is more complicated for these communities to access health services. So, when we provide this assistance, we provide health services to people who face such challenges,” said Maria Chan, IOM doctor, at the end of a long day of consultations.
To tackle this, IOM has decided to get medical staff on the move, traveling to the doorstep of those in need.
"Indigenous people are among the most vulnerable populations. These services change the lives of people with chronic diseases in remote communities; it eases their lives."
The mobile units are fully equipped to provide Venezuelan migrants, refugees, and host communities with much-needed health care, including essential treatment and medicines, once a month.
Two IOM Mobile Health Units are reaching the region's most vulnerable populations and training community health agents to provide primary care to rural patients.
Indigenous communities in the region may suffer from several chronic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, children's malnutrition, fungal skin infections, parasites, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Graciela Nunez, a Venezuelan migrant in Sakao Mota, a remote indigenous village hosting locals and Venezuelans, said, “I came from Venezuela for my health because I had pain in my stomach; although they gave me my treatment there, it did nothing. But now they gave me another treatment for the pain and for my eye that went under surgery. I also asked the doctor to do an examination in the laboratory. With this treatment, I want to recover to work with the people here.”
In 2018, a shortage of food and medicines, plus growing insecurity, pushed Nunez and her five-member family to leave their small Venezuelan community across the border.
They sold their belongings and crossed the boundary with several other Taurepang families.
Since then, the subsistence farming practiced in the host community has helped them to survive.
Last year, the IOM health team provided medical and psychological consultations to about 8,000 vulnerable migrants, including refugees and host communities across Roraima, an average of 30 people daily.
Medical care included general assessments, testing for STIs, COVID-19, blood glucose, pediatric medicine, and prenatal consultations.
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