(7 Nov 2024)
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Arida, Syria – 05 November 2024
1. Various of UN vehicles arriving at Arida border health center
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Muriel Mafico, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative in Syria:
"Now when it comes to UNFPA our focus areas are reproductive health. We are focusing on the close to 7,000 women that have arrived in Syria who are pregnant. And we also know that in the next month alone, almost 800 births will happen here in Syria."
3. Various of women arriving at health center, exteriors of health center
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Muriel Mafico, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative in Syria:
"And since the end of September, with the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon, we have witnessed nearly half a million people who have crossed from Lebanon into Syria. The majority of the people who have arrived in Syria are women and children. And so, this is typical in many of the humanitarian situations across the globe. Once again it is women and children who are paying a heavy price."
5. Various of Mafico and team checking on women in center
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Muriel Mafico, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative in Syria:
"We are focusing on supporting the women and children who are arriving. We are providing them instant support here at the border."
7. Displaced women in health center at the border area
8.SOUNDBITE (English) Muriel Mafico, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative in Syria:
"The response so far is less than adequate. It is inadequate. And this is because of the constraints on resources that we have. Maybe just to remind ourselves that Syria already had 16 million people who are in need of humanitarian assistance even before this escalation that we witnessed in September."
9. Displaced women
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suhair Alsahili, pregnant woman:
"We are still not used to moving from one place to another. It takes time to get used to this. We are sitting around and waiting and it is very hard."
10.Displaced women
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suhair Alsahili, pregnant woman:
"The doctor is following up with me with ultrasound but there are some vitamins that are not available, and some medicines too."
12. Various of displaced women in a meeting with UNFPA representatives
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ola Antonios, Gynaecologist:
"I examine pregnant women with ultrasound. There are women who gave birth 10 or 20 days ago and we are following up with them and doing checkups with ultrasound as well. The medicine we have is not enough to cover everyone. We don’t have enough medicine."
14. Various of Antonios with displaced women
15. Wide of health center
STORYLINE:
Israel’s escalated aerial bombardment of Lebanon has driven over half a million people to cross the border into Syria, overwhelming already strained resources and putting thousands of pregnant women in urgent need of assistance.
“The majority of the people who arrived in Syria are women and children,” said Muriel Mafico, the representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Syria. “Once again, it is women and children who are paying a heavy price.”
Among the arrivals, an estimated 7,000 are pregnant, with about 800 expected to give birth within the next month, Mafico told The Associated Press.
“We are providing them with instant support here at the border.”
The Lebanese General Security recorded 361,300 Syrians and 177,864 Lebanese crossing into Syria between Sept. 23 and Nov. 1, according to a report by Lebanon’s crisis response unit.
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