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<\/a>The travel itinerary included the refugee camp Abu Farris in the Lebanese region of Beqaa Valley, which houses approximately 280 families. The crews also passed through Majdal Anjar and Arsal, and visited an MSF hospital in Amman, Jordan, which specializes in reconstructive surgeries for victims of armed conflicts.<\/p>\n
The first film set was Lebanon, where Doctors Without Borders worked amid armed conflicts for the first time in 1976. Due to the Syrian conflict which started in 2011, several air raids and land-based assaults against the civil population caused thousands of families to run away to Lebanon. The country has around 4.5 million inhabitants and shelters at least 1.5 million Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the country with the world\u2019s highest per capita refugee population. Despite not being rich, having a reasonable median income as well as its own problems, it has sheltered many refugees over the years, unlike other countries with access-denying policies,\u201d said MSF Press Relations coordinator Paulo Braga, who joined the trip and assisted in contacting local professionals.<\/p>\n
Braga explains that the huge contingent of refugees in the country presents many challenges for the local healthcare system. Therefore, MSF offers not only emergency medical care, but also the treatment for non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. These are the patients Drauzio meets in one of the videos of the series.<\/p>\n
Other theme the Brazilian doctor accompanies is mother and child health. Lebanon has 13 points of care, including hospitals and health centers. Only in 2018, the organization attended in 5,000 normal childbirths, 50,000 pediatric appointments, 95,000 appointments for non-communicable diseases, and handed 46,000 vaccine doses. Overall, it offers 231,000 appointments in Lebanon per year.<\/p>\n The Brazilian series portrays the work of MSF health promoters, who also go out in the field to see patients and give guidance on hygiene and sexual and reproductive health.<\/p>\n In Jordan, the Brazilian physician saw a hospital created in 2006 by the MSF to cater to casualties of war. \u201cIn that hospital they do reconstructive surgery. The doctors are orthopaedical surgeons, plastic surgeons, and they do prosthetics like the ones shown in the video. As the director herself explains, we have been getting lots of people from Syria, Yemen and Iraq,\u201d said Braga.<\/p>\n A big challenge for the Brazilian team was to do the work with no preproduction, meeting each interviewee on the spot, breaking down cultural barriers with the help of MSF professionals. \u201cI have lots of Lebanese friends here in Brazil, but before going on the trip I realized I didn\u2019t know much about their country,\u201d Drauzio said in the first video in the series. \u201cYou do soak up things like the cuisine, but we knew next to nothing about the culture. You must rid yourself of stereotypes. For example, your expectations about whether there\u2019ll be fighting going on in the places we visited. We did get some culture shock, but we were made to feel welcome,\u201d series director Costa told ANBA.<\/p>\n All services offered in MSF projects are free of charge. The documentary was enabled by the partnership with UOL, which released the contents exclusively. The production company team hopes to put out new similar contents. \u201c\u2019Drauzio em campo<\/em>\u2019 sets\u00a0a\u00a0precedent for portraying hi, out in the field in other places. We don\u2019t know what the destination will be, but the thematic will permeate the figure of Drauzio, the doctor who deals with social issues,\u201d concluded Costa.<\/p>\n Translated by Guilherme Miranda & Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>