Médecins Sans Frontières - WEBCLIP

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB121381

Date taken / Date Recorded 28/03/2022 2:06 PM

Country South Sudan

Commissioning section MSF-SWITZERLAND

Photographer / videographer / producer Pierre-Yves Bernard

Copyright MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

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

Duration 2m19s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1080px 341.72 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist ITW (subtitles):
Charles Gaudry,
Deputy Director of Operations
MSF Emergency response unit

There are about 30,000 people who have gathered with absolutely nothing.
People have fled their homes, and there are families, mostly women and children, very young ones, some of them born in the Agok hospital, sleeping on the ground under the trees. The weather is extremely hot.

ON-Screen TEXT :

Since March 5th, MSF has been responding to an acute emergency in South Sudan.

Thousands of people have been forced to flee from violence in Agok, in a border territory with Sudan.

ITW (subtitles):

The living conditions of the displaced people are dramatic. There is almost no response from the humanitarian community in South Sudan.

So, as MSF, we are extremely alone today. It's been six weeks since these events took place and the population has been displaced. As a medical organisation, we find ourselves distributing basic items to build shelters, distributing food, and treating water so that people have at least some access to drinking water. We were able to do this in two weeks, but these are really basic things. It is a matter of survival.

And medical activities, in collaboration with existing facilities, since people no longer have access to the Agok hospital, where we have been working for over 10 years.

ON-Screen TEXT :

MSF has been working in Agok for 14 years.

Our teams run a 140-bed hospital there, which serves a population of 150,000 people.

The hospital's activities have been suspended after most of the population fled.

ITW (subtitles):

In a country like South Sudan, where the existing humanitarian machinery is absolutely enormous, it is staggering to see that after six weeks, no emergency response has been put in place.

Today, the problem is that we are completely overloaded with this intervention and we find it hard to concentrate on our medical added value.

We have called on various actors of the humanitarian community to come and provide assistance to these people. And today, we still don't see anything concrete being put in place.

ON-Screen TEXT :

MSF alone will not be able to cover all the needs of this very large number of displaced people for long.

Our teams are concerned about an increase in malaria and malnutrition among children due to the living conditions.

WEBCLIP - Agok -ENGLISH SQUARE

WEBCLIP - Agok -ENGLISH SQUARE