Médecins Sans Frontières - Saving Kids' Lives in Liberia [ENG]

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF238903

Date taken / Date Recorded 15/04/2018 12:00 AM

Country Liberia

Commissioning section MSF-UNITED STATES

Photographer / videographer / producer Melissa Pracht

Copyright MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★★ (B)

Video format h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 2m12s

Maximum Size 1280px × 720px 111.54 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist SCRIPT - Liberia surgery - short version

We're here at Bardnesville Junction Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Time to go to work. Let’s go.
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My name is Neema Kaseje. I'm a pediatric surgeon and a general surgeon with MSF.
0:16
This is my third mission with MSF, and it's a different kind of mission. We are working to set up pediatric surgery, which is something new for the organization.
0:24
The patients here present quite late in the disease process, which sometimes we're not used to, coming from a high income setting.
0:35
And many times they also have additional pediatric problems, so in addition to the surgical problem they will also present malnutrition, they will present anemia, they will present other things that need to be treated as well as the surgical problem, so that can be a challenge.
0:54
Diasha is a six-year-old who presented to the hospital towards the end of last week with fever. She had pain, not in the right lower quadrant, but in the right upper quadrant, which made her case a bit unusual. We took her to theater and did an exploratory laparotomy and we found perforated acute appendicitis.
1:17
[Mother:] Diasha came down with fever early in the morning and I took her to the community clinic. And they diagnosed her with malaria. She was still having fever and started complaining about stomach pains. [1:31] And when the physician saw her, he said "You need to go to MSF and they will see Diasha and do something about it."
1:39
So we took out her appendix and she's been recovering quite well. And she should be able to go home in the next day or so.
1:47
[Laughing] All day all day all day we are giving you medicine?
1:54
We are working to show that it is possible to do pediatric surgical care in this setting and to also have great outcomes.
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