Access to healthcare for migrants in Musina, South Africa (ENG)

Interview with Sr Frances Grogan who runs a shelter for women migrants in the town of Musina, South Africa talking about the relationship between local health facilities and migrants and emphasising the need for access to healthcare for all.

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Musina: Migration and health

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF306768

Date taken / Date Recorded 01/06/2019 12:00 AM

Country South Africa

Commissioning section MSF-SOUTH AFRICA

Photographer / videographer / producer Tadeu Andre

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Duration 2m41s

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Additional Information / Shotlist [00:00:00] I think if people could only put themselves in the other person's shoes.

[00:00:04] And say, what must it be like to leave my home, my family, my house, my everything?

[00:02:25] TEXT ON SCREEN – Health and migration. Why it matters

[00:00:16] My name is Sister Frances Grogan.

[00:00:18] I've been working here in Musina here at the women's shelter for over four years now.

[00:00:23] We cater for women, refugees, migrants and their minor children.

[00:00:29] So it's really to offer them refuge, really, and safety and a little bit of comfort to the women who pass through here.

[00:00:39] I think here in Musina and we are relatively lucky in terms of the health service.

[00:00:46] The people in the clinic always help us really.

[00:00:48] And there was a time in the hospital when we had a difficulty because they said anybody who wasn't documented would have to pay.

[00:00:56] And there was one lady.

[00:00:57] She was really critically ill and they wouldn't discharge her until she paid.

[00:01:01] And I said that this lady is going to die, you know, if she's in and we need to get her home.

[00:01:06] We got that lady discharged, took her in this car, took her over the border. And two days later she died at home in Zimbabwe.

[00:01:14] I think if someone could put themselves in the shoes of some of these women and see what they've come through, they would never be negative towards them.

[00:01:27] Some of the needs that we've noticed, you know, over the past while or what maybe has changed, again, in terms of the needs.

[00:01:32] Is that we've noticed, that there's a number, a greater number of women coming that have psychological or psychiatric problems.

[00:01:39] In the DRC, that people always talk about the security situation and how the soldiers can just come into the villages.

[00:01:47] They can just break into the houses to some of their families in front of them,.

[00:01:52] Which just happened to some of the women here and rape the women.

[00:01:56] So they don't feel safe.

[00:01:59] He (my husband) was decapitated in front of me, then they stole everything.

[00:02:05] I had 5 children, 4 girls and 1 boy

[00:02:11] They raped and killed 3 of my girls.

[00:02:16] One of them raped me inside the house.

[00:02:21] TEXT ON SCREEN – Healthcare is for all. Regardless of nationality

[00:02:25] TEXT ON SCREEN – Join the conversation. Because

[00:02:31] TEXT ON SCREEN – Actions Speak