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The Documentary Podcast

Coronavirus: Sudan

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Sudan has recorded only 32,000 cases of coronavirus infections and just 2,300 Covid-19 related deaths so far. It is also rolling out vaccines. But the numbers are thought to be much higher and host Nuala McGovern hears from three women living in the capital, Khartoum, about how their experiences of family and friends dying differs greatly from the official Covid-19 figures. We also return to intensive care units in the UK, US and South Africa to hear from the specialist doctors who are responsible for patients on ventilators and pain management.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the BBC World Service.

0:02.0

She said he was hecker.

0:03.0

So many millions of dollars.

0:05.0

It's got to be North Korea. How in the world did this happen?

0:07.0

The Lazarus heist, episode one is available now.

0:10.0

Hello, I'm Nula McGovran on BBC World Service and this is BBC OS, conversations on coronavirus, Sudan.

0:19.4

Three women in the Sudanese capital share why their experiences of loss are in stark contrast to official figures of COVID-19 fatalities.

0:32.0

Plus, anesthetists discuss the stress they feel during this pandemic.

0:37.8

We know that we often the last person to actually speak to that patient terms of statistics that you will be okay,

0:48.8

knowing that the large number won't be okay. Every country is currently going through a different stage of coronavirus infections.

1:00.0

For some, numbers are falling, while sadly for other countries cases continue to rise as

1:06.9

we've seen so dramatically in India and images of the scale of the crisis have been seen around the world.

1:15.0

One country that is hidden away from international focus is Sudan.

1:19.0

If you look at official government figures, it doesn't strike you as particularly remarkable

1:24.6

compared to many others only 32,000 recorded cases of COVID-19 and 2,000 deaths.

1:31.7

Plus the country has started to roll out vaccines.

1:35.2

But the picture appears much different when you talk to people in the country.

1:40.0

And to understand more about what is going on in the capital cartoon, my colleague Ben James spoke

1:45.3

to Development Manager Inass, Project Manager to Greed, and her friend Dahlia.

1:51.3

She owns a bakery and began by explaining what the past year has been like for her.

1:57.0

Horific in so many ways I personally have lost a lot of family members to it. I've suffered in terms of my work and I think also mentally it's taken a toll on a lot of people because we're not used to this. We didn't know how to react or how to act so to speak.

2:15.0

It has been a year to forget, but I'm hoping with the rollout of the vaccination,

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