Médecins Sans Frontières - Video 2 - ENG - El Geneina Teaching hospital

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB216912

Date taken / Date Recorded 09/12/2024 3:58 PM

Country Sudan

Commissioning section MSF-INTERNATIONAL

Photographer / videographer / producer Thibault Fendler

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

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

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

Duration 1m29s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1920px 215.35 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist El Geneina,
West-Darfur, Sudan

Chris Lockyear
Secretary-General of
Médecins Sans Frontières

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I met a boy who had been
shot in his jaw

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and had gone through
reconstructive surgery

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in a really poorly
supplied hospital

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and was starting to undergo
his many months of recovery.

MSF Secretary-General
Chris Lockyear visited
the El Geneina Teaching
Hospital, in the capital
of West-Darfur

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We're supporting
the hospital with supplies,

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but also with personnel.

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We're also working
in partnership

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with the Ministry
of Health staff.

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And it's really a
team effort to be able

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to provide
the basic services.

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And it's important
to say that

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without the medical
humanitarian supplies

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that NGOs like
ourselves are offering,

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the whole of Darfur
has been largery cut off

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from the state
system of supply.

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It's incredibly difficult
to work in places like this.

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It's challenging to ensure
the safety of our staff.

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It's also challenging to
bring in the essential supplies.

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But what it
does show is that

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it is also entirely
possible.

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There are many
restrictions for providing

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humanitarian assistance
in this conflict,

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including restrictions
that have been placed

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in terms of
cross-border assistance,

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but also the ability
to move around

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within Darfur and
Sudan more generally.

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However, as a
humanitarian community,

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we must challenge
these administrative restrictions

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that are inhibiting
the access

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of humanitarian
aid to Sudan,

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because these
administrative restrictions

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are part of a
broader war on people.

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They are being
instrumentalized

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to restrict humanitarian
assistance

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to those people who so
urgently need it across Sudan.