DRC IDPs Healthcare USAGM
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- DRC IDPs Healthcare USAGM
- December 8, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: DRC IDPS HEALTHCARE HEADLINE: DRC’s Conflict Displaced Struggle for Health Care TEASER: BYLINE: Ruth Omar Esther PUBLISHED: 12/08/2022 at 8am CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Nyiragongo Territory, DRC VIDEOGRAPHER: ESDRAS TSONGO PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: Schearf, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AFP PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _x_ RADIO _x_ TRT: 2:30 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: RADIO VERSION TO FOLLOW)) ((INTRO)) Fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo’s military and rebels has since March displaced nearly 400,000 people, with most IDP camps in Nyiragongo territory, where health centers are struggling to cope. Ruth Omar Esther visited a medical center in Nyiragongo and has this report. ((NARRATOR)) Maendeleo private health center in Munigi, a transit camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Nyiragongo territory, is overwhelmed. ((NARRATOR)) The UN says fighting since March between the military and M-23 rebels in North Kivu province has forced about 390,000 people to flee, with 182,000 living in IDP camps, almost all of them in Nyiragongo. ((NARRATOR)) Dr. Jacques Muhungu says the number of patients they see each day has trippled. ((Dr. Jacques Muhungu, Maendeleo Health Center, (French, 20 secs)) “Here is our stock. There is nothing here. We do not know how to supply ourselves. As you see it is empty. We have no more needles. Tomorrow if they (patients) come, we don't know how to supply ourselves.” ((NARRATOR)) With few resources, displaced people who need treatment are often not able to pay for it. Wivine Zainabo fled clashes in her village of Kibumba three months ago with her husband and four children. Her husband got lost in the chaos. She has not been able to contact him and doesn’t know if he’s still alive. (is she still with her children ((Wivine Zainabo, IDP from Kibumba, (Kiswahili, 27 secs)) "When I came here, I was shaking, I was weak, and I think it was malaria. My knees were hurting, and I could not walk. I have no means to pay for health care. The doctor himself will know how to help us." ((NARRATOR)) The Congolese government says it is providing free health care to the IDPs, but health authorities in North Kivu say the need is too great. ((Dr. Janvier Kubuya, Head of Health Division in North Kivu (French, 30 secs)) "Although we have received support from the government, the little that they are able to provide is not enough to cover all the needs. The best thing is to stop the hostilities and allow these people to return to their homes.” ((NARRATOR)) Peace talks in Nairobi this month built on a ceasefire agreed in Angola late November between the DRC and Rwanda, which Kinshasa accuses of supporting the rebels and which it denies. ((NARRATOR)) M23 rebels, who were not invited to the talks, announced Tuesday they would begin withdrawing from territory they seized in the fighting and would uphold the truce. ((NARRATOR)) The Angola-brokered ceasefire had lasted just one week, with both sides blaming the other and civilians caught in the middle. ((Ruth Omar Esther, for VOA News, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: DRC IDPS HEALTHCARE HEADLINE: DRC’s Conflict Displaced Struggle for Health Care TEASER: BYLINE: Ruth Omar Esther PUBLISHED: 12/08/2022 at 8am CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Nyiragongo Territory, DRC VIDEOGRAPHER: ESDRAS TSONGO PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: Schearf, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AFP PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _x_ RADIO _x_ TRT: 2:30 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: RADIO VERSION TO FOLLOW)) ((INTRO)) Fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo’s military and rebels has since March displaced nearly 400,000 people, with most IDP camps in Nyiragongo territory, where health centers are struggling to cope. Ruth Omar Esther visited a medical center in Nyiragongo and has this report. ((NARRATOR)) Maendeleo private health center in Munigi, a transit camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Nyiragongo territory, is overwhelmed. ((NARRATOR)) The UN says fighting since March between the military and M-23 rebels in North Kivu province has forced about 390,000 people to flee, with 182,000 living in IDP camps, almost all of them in Nyiragongo. ((NARRATOR)) Dr. Jacques Muhungu says the number of patients they see each day has trippled. ((Dr. Jacques Muhungu, Maendeleo Health Center, (French, 20 secs)) “Here is our stock. There is nothing here. We do not know how to supply ourselves. As you see it is empty. We have no more needles. Tomorrow if they (patients) come, we don't know how to supply ourselves.” ((NARRATOR)) With few resources, displaced people who need treatment are often not able to pay for it. Wivine Zainabo fled clashes in her village of Kibumba three months ago with her husband and four children. Her husband got lost in the chaos. She has not been able to contact him and doesn’t know if he’s still alive. (is she still with her children ((Wivine Zainabo, IDP from Kibumba, (Kiswahili, 27 secs)) "When I came here, I was shaking, I was weak, and I think it was malaria. My knees were hurting, and I could not walk. I have no means to pay for health care. The doctor himself will know how to help us." ((NARRATOR)) The Congolese government says it is providing free health care to the IDPs, but health authorities in North Kivu say the need is too great. ((Dr. Janvier Kubuya, Head of Health Division in North Kivu (French, 30 secs)) "Although we have received support from the government, the little that they are able to provide is not enough to cover all the needs. The best thing is to stop the hostilities and allow these people to return to their homes.” ((NARRATOR)) Peace talks in Nairobi this month built on a ceasefire agreed in Angola late November between the DRC and Rwanda, which Kinshasa accuses of supporting the rebels and which it denies. ((NARRATOR)) M23 rebels, who were not invited to the talks, announced Tuesday they would begin withdrawing from territory they seized in the fighting and would uphold the truce. ((NARRATOR)) The Angola-brokered ceasefire had lasted just one week, with both sides blaming the other and civilians caught in the middle. ((Ruth Omar Esther, for VOA News, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date December 8, 2022 08:12 EST
- Byline Ruth Esther
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America