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This film shows how the war in Sri Lanka has hit the Vanni region particularly hard as thousands of people fled there to escape the conflict. It focuses on the health care crisis and how the ICRC responded.
This film presents the inspirational story of Najmuddin, Director of the ICRC orthopaedic centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, as he makes his way to Cairo to carry the Olympic flame and represent landmine victims throughout the world. Najmuddin lost both his legs at the age of eighteen when he drove over an anti-tank mine.
Mohsin, a young man from Kabul, Afghanistan, was badly injured in an accident two years ago which left him paraplegic. This video tells the story of how he overcame his terrible injury and found a new role in life as a grocery shop owner, with the help of the ICRC's Home Care programme.
This film highlights the ICRC's important work offering specialised health care for incarcerated patients in countries of war or suffering the after-effects of war. By focusing specifically on the tuberculosis control programme carried out in the prisons in Georgia, the film demonstrates how strategy is implemented to offer hope to those affected by the disease. It also outlines which components are essential to the success of such a programme, from effective training to regular drug supply through to political commitment from the authorities concerned.
The video highlights ICRC's innovative urban voucher programme in providing economic assistance to the most vulnerable sectors of the Palestinian population. It shows the daily burden of a family in the West bank and the deterioration of its living conditions, as a consequence of closure and curfews. The programme gives beneficiaries the flexibility in choosing food and non-food items according to their needs. The ICRC's assistance to destitute Palestinians in Occupied Territories is carefully balanced with intervention calling upon Israel to take measures that will enable this population to resume as normal a life as possible and to respond to their humanitarian needs.
This film captures the 12 year period between 1991 and May 2003 during which the ICRC's engineers and technicians were involved in the rehabilitation of water and sewage treatment facilities in Iraq.
It demonstrates ICRC's work to ensure that the most vulnerable communities benefited from a reliable water and sewage system, providing drinking water, treating waste and minimizing waterborne diseases. Over the years, this programme in Iraq became one of the ICRC's major involvement in the field of water, sanitation and habitat and the film shows how the programme adapted constantly to the ever-changing political and economical situation in the country.
The 1990s conflict between Georgia and its breakaway republic of Abkhazia forced 250,000 people to flee the fighting. Still today, many are unable to return home. Those residents left behind are also experiencing serious hardship as the economy of western Georgia is currently in a state of slump. With no jobs, little or no income and no future, it is the very old, the very sick and those without families to help them who are suffering most. This video highlights the work carried out by the ICRC assisting thousands of people who have nowhere else to turn, providing basic food supplies and helping the housebound in their homes. Interviews with people in the towns of Zugdidi and Kutaisi reveal the depth of their suffering and the urgent need for both help and hope.
This film relates a difficult journey which the ICRC undertook on the Tshupa river to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to more than 50 000 people in Equateur province, in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The operation, which lasted three months and involved a 3, 200 km boat trip through dense tropical forest, was carried out for local villagers and those who, having fled their homes to escape the fighting, were dependant on aid for their survival.
Fifty years of conflict have prevented medical practitioners from treating civilian populations in many parts of Colombia, especially villagers in remote, difficult-to-reach areas. Responding to this problem, the ICRC has operated mobile health units in four areas since 1996. This third video in the series of training films on primary health care follows the ICRC mobile health team as it travels by river to provide curative and preventive care for villagers.
Normal management and supply of health services are not possible in the middle of a war. Health-care practitioners and civilians are under constant threat, systems break down. As a result, the ICRC has been using the strategy for primary health care, or PHC, which was developed by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. This last video in the series on primary health care gives a general overview of the ICRC's PHC activities. It illustrates how the ICRC developed strategies which go beyond providing medicines and treatment, in response to the needs of three countries with very different challenges: Bosnia, Sudan and Colombia.
A first step, focuses on the ICRC's work in Afghanistan to rehabilitate landmine victims and to reintegrate them into society. The ICRC's prosthetic/orthotic centres in Afghanistan have been helping landmine victims and other disabled people for the past 15 years, fitting them with artificial limbs, free of charge.
The second video in the series of training films on the primary health care describes how the ICRC determined in 1998 that Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country devastated by years of war, needed special support to ensure the health of its community. Working with village and neighbourhood groups, it introduced a participatory approach in which communities are learning how to devise and implement strategies aimed at preventing disease and promoting health in a broad sense.
This video looks at the case of southern Sudan, where war has dragged on for over 20 years, and where the ICRC has responded to the threat to the well-being of the population by establishing a primary health-care programme.
The ICRC prosthetic workshop in Battambang, Cambodia was set up in 1991 to provide low-cost, prostheses to amputees, many of whom are victims of mines. This video follows the ICRC's process of fabricating a trans-femoral prosthesis for an amputee - from the first measurements, through to the final check.
Present-day conflicts often end in stalemates, situations that are neither war nor peace. In such cases emergency aid cannot be withdrawn from one day to the next. Time is needed for basic services, such as water-supply systems, to start functioning normally again. This in-depth film features three different types of water programme carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in cooperation with local bodies. First, two water-supply projects are shown in an urban context, in Mogadishu (Somalia) and Bukavu (Democratic Republic of the Congo). The next project is a similar one, this time carried out in a rural setting, on the Lake Kivu Island of Idjwi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The last part of the film focuses on the ICRC's water and sanitation programmes aimed at improving sanitary conditions in Rwanda's overcrowded prisons. These three examples, set in different environments and using different approaches, demonstrate that access to safe water is an essential component of any public health programme.
ICRC, 1998 / running time: 18 minutes / VHS and DVD / French, English, Spanish, International soundtrack / Price CHF 20.- / ref. V-F-CR-F-00372-A
The ICRC Prosthetic workshop in Battambang, Cambodia was set up in 1991 to provide low-cost, prostheses to amputees, many of whom are victims of mines. Amputees stay at the centre, with its physiotherapy complex and 120 bed dormitories, while they wait for their artificial limbs to be fitted.
Following a war that has left Somalia devastated and divided by never-ending clan struggle, an almost-forgotten profession has made a comeback in Mogadishu: the water vendor. The city's entire water-distribution system has been destroyed in the fighting and the ICRC has therefore sunk many wells in an attempt to supply water to Mogadishu's population. As the poet Abdullah Raggé says, "Water is the source of life". Mr Raggé is helping the ICRC in its work, in particular by broadcasting messages on local radio to promote hygiene.
This informative film concentrates on a polypropylene component factory in Phnom Penh set up by the ICRC. It examines how the components are dispatched to the ICRC prosthetic workshop in Battambang, near the most heavily mined area of the country and to workshops run by other organisations involved in the physical rehabilitation of mine victims.
This film shows large-scale work to repair and put back into service a water-supply system, dating from the period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that channels the water from several springs in the mountains near Pale, down through a 26-km pipeline to Serb villages and the old town of Sarajevo. The first phase of the project was carried out by the ICRC towards the end of 1996. More than 100 labourers and engineers worked in shifts for three months, repairing major leaks, replacing entire sections of the pipeline and installing over 100 valves and manholes. The ICRC supervised the project (estimated cost: over 1 million Swiss francs), and served as a link between the two public authorities concerned and the local contractor.
Surgeons, nurses and other medical staff from Red Cross Societies all over the world have come to a no-man's-land between Kenya and Sudan to help the victims of a forgotten war. Life-saving procedures, an emergency that has been going on for years, a daily succession of planes unloading new casualties - such is the scene of day-in, day-out ICRC work in a remote corner of the earth called Lokichokio. From the surgeon just arrived from Europe or Australia to the patient evacuated from deep in the bush, all those involved in this classic example of humanitarian endeavour relate their day-to-day experiences.
In times of conflict, the destruction of water-supply systems frequently claims more victims than the fighting itself. Humanitarian organizations like the ICRC often have to deal with shortages of drinking water, both in cities where the infrastructure has been damaged and in camps for refugees or displaced persons.
This training film is an introduction to the subject of war surgery for surgeons who will be dealing with war injuries for the first time. There are few opportunities for making films on war surgery. This one was shot in the surgical hospital which the ICRC set up in Peshawar, Pakistan, for Afghan war-wounded, most of whom must travel long distances to receive treatment. The aim is to show some of the more common injuries encountered by surgeons and the various ways to treat them: wound excision, major amputations, external fixation, etc.
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