Aid workers speak of Ukrainian refugee challenge

(31 Mar 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++CORRECTIVE - PLEASE NOTE - AMENDS DETAILS ABOUT IZABELA MACIOLEK IN SHOTLIST AND STORYLINE. THE UPDATED SCRIPT REMOVES REFERENCE TO DOCTOR AND STATES THAT MACIOLEK IS VOLUNTEERING AT CLINIC++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Medyka - 31 March 2022 1. Pan of refugees' beds inside a closed stadium 2. Refugees sitting on beds 3. Refugees talking to Polish soldier 4. Children playing with footballs 5. Oskana Senchyn, refugee from Kyiv, with her daughter entering a makeshift clinic 6. Various of Senchyn, child and Izabela Maciolek 7. Maciolek checking baby girl 8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Oskana Senchyn, refugee from Kyiv: "My dad and husband stayed in Ukraine. My dad is 65, he said "I'm not going anywhere". I was not planning to go anywhere either, I came to spend some time in Poland, I do not want to stay at a house and receive Polish benefits. No, I came here so that the children could sleep peacefully." 9. Pan from medicines on shelves to Senchyn and her daughter with Maciolek 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Izabela Maciolek, physician assistant from Portland, Oregon, U.S.: "Some of the obstacles that we have encountered while caring for the patients at this refugee centre have been with their cultural beliefs. They are reluctant to take traditional medications and prefer herbal supplements. Another barrier has been language difficulty with some patients who speak certain dialects that we're not familiar with, and we need to look up some of the words or specifically medical vocabulary words. Another are patients who are presenting with physical symptoms that are brought on by stress, and trying to differentiate these symptoms from the actual medical such as the cardiac problem has been at times difficult." 11. Various of a refugee holding her daughter, talking to physicians 12. Close of baby girl ASSOCIATED PRESS Przemysl - 31 March 2022 13. Exterior of Tesco supermarket warehouse building, now a refugee aid centre 14. Various of refugees 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Oded Regev, physician at Israel-based NATAN NGO: "It is very difficult for us, especially as Jews, to see those sights here. It reminds us of what happened here 80 years ago. I used to see refugees only in black and white pictures, and now I can see it in colour. They look like families that only went for vacation with suitcases, but they are refugees, and we have to supply all their needs here - like hot showers - something that some of them did not have for weeks." 16. Refugees and volunteers outside refugee centre 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin James, refugee centre coordinator: "We are still in great need of everything. The hub here as you see behind us is an old superstore, Tesco, and they have great warehouse facilities. We have 35 people constantly working just on sorting donations that come in. There's quite often queues outside waiting for lorryloads of donations in. So please don't stop, please don't give up - the Ukrainians really, really need our help." 18. Refugees boarding buses STORYLINE: Hundreds of refugees from Ukraine have taken shelter in a closed sports hall in Medyka, a Polish town near the border. 400 beds fill the hall, with 323 of them currently occupied. According to an official at the sports centre, 10,000 refugees have passed through the hall since the beginning of the Ukraine war. Oskana Senchyn, a 34-year-old from Kyiv, first refused to leave the country, preferring to stay with her father and husband. But she ultimately decided it was the only way she could keep her children safe. =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...