Interview with Jangyl and Jaldush

In this interview I talk with the Director of the hospital (Jaldush) and the OBGYN (Jangyl) about the water issues at the FGP. Please see below for the interview transcript. Don't forget to visit the project page.

00:00

Andrew: Hello How are you?

Jaldush: Hello, good.

Andrew: Can you tell me about yourselves and your work?

Jaldush: I’m the Doctor and director of the hospital in Kara-Koo village. We work for six villages with a total population of about 8,000 people.   

00:34

Jangyl: My name is Jangyl Niazieleva, I work at the FGP in Kara-Koo. I am a doctor and the gynecologist at the hospital. I’ve worked here for 23 years. There are 3545 women in the Ak-Terek village region. I help not only the woman, but also the children and other adults.

 01:06

Andrew: Why do we need water at our hospital?

Jaldush: Not having water at the hospital is the biggest problem at our hospital. For 15 years we have tried to get water in the hospital but we haven’t been able, it is only outside. Since then the pipes haven’t been working. Now the pipes have holes and water does not flow. Therefore we really need water. Why do we need water? Because keeping the hospital clean begins with water.

01:49

Jangyl: Why do I think we need water? I think we really need water. Every time we see patients we need to wash our hands. My work is to see women, even when I do general check up I need to wash my hands. This is the biggest problem, we can’t even wash our hands all of the time. We also need water for cleaning instruments, and cleaning the floor. We need water for a lot of things.

02:30

Andrew: Why hasn’t the village region government or the rayon government given money to help fix this problem?

Jaldush: The village government and Tong region has not given money for this problem because they do not have money to give. They don’t have money to give for this water project so they cannot help.

Jangyl: They can’t help because they don’t have money to help. In the past they gave us simple things like portable sinks, but now they are old and many do not work. They are not good quality and only work for one or two years. Another thing about water. When the hospital water stops we get water from the street and other places with buckets. But the water can have bacteria and other microbes in it since it comes from outside.

03:44

Andrew: If we get water at the hospital who will pay for the electricity from the water heaters and other increased costs?

Jaldush: If we will get water at the hospital, the Tong region central hospital and the village government said that they will pay for the increased operating costs.

04:33

Andrew: If we get clean water and a pipe breaks who will fix it?

Jaldush: If we get new plumbing Asanbekov Kapan and Nurlan Adulif will work to install the new plumbing and if something breaks they will be responsible to help fix it.

Jangyl: We have talked with them and they said that if something breaks in the future they will fix the pipes.

Jaldush: Yesterday they said that they will be responsible to fix it. The new water system won’t have problems everyday, but maybe every few months something will need adjusted and they will do it.

Jangyl: If one of them is not available the other will be to help fix or adjust the new system.

05:50

Andrew: For how many years has there not been water?

Jaldush: For about 10-15 years, the pipes are old, they have holes and some have rusted.

Jangyl: The water has never worked well inside. In some places there is water, but in other areas the water does not work. It has been this way for 15 years. It has never worked well.

Jaldush: When they installed the pipes in the hospital they did not do a good job.

06:45

Andrew: Do you all have anything else you would like to say?

Jangyl: Another thing about water. We have water outside. However in winter the pipe freezes and we have to dump hot water over the pipes to make them work, when it works it is good, but sometimes it does not work. In the village sometimes there is not water for 2-3, 5, 10-15 days. If we will have reservoirs for water it will be very good for when the village does not have water.

Jaldush: In Kara-Koo village they put pipes in the village 30 years ago, but now they are old. They break in different places, water comes out, then they don’t work. The same thing has happened to the old piping in the hospital.

Jangyl: If the village does not have water, we don’t have water and sometimes we have to get water from the irrigation canals for cleaning the floors, but for other things when there is not water we have to look in other places. It is a very big problem.

Jangyl: If we get clean water, water heaters, the reservoirs, we will be so grateful to you. I want to say thank you from our hospital, our village government, or regional government, and the people of our village!

Jaldush: If we will get clean water as Jangyl said we will be very grateful to you all. All of our people in the village will be grateful too

Jangyl: Our hospital has 45 people who work at it. If we get water all of us will be very grateful for your help. Thank you very, very much!