HAITI / CHOLERA OUTBREAK INTERVENTION

The Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) has mobilized emergency teams to respond to cholera cases in the Hatian commune of Anse d'Hainault following Hurricane Matthew. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:12
• Production Date: 14 October 2016
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: CHOLERA; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: HAITI
• MAMS Id: 1740478
• Parent Id: 1740478
• Alternate Title: unifeed161014e

Description

STORY: HAITI / CHOLERA OUTBREAK INTERVENTION
TRT: 2:12
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 10 OCTOBER 2016, ANSE D'HAINAULT, HAITI

Shotlist

10 OCTOBER 2016, ANSE D'HAINAULT, HAITI

1. Pan right, destroyed village
2. Med shot, entrance of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Hospital
3. Wide shot, room with several cholera victims, man vomiting
4. Close up, elderly man rest head on wooden stool
5. Close up, child
6. Med shot, ACTED staff entering room
7. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Elimelek Ellien, team leader, Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED):
“The situation at the hospital at the moment is that there are no beds for all the sick people to lie down. There is an elderly patient on the floor who is vomiting and we have no nurse to take charge of the patient.”
8. Wide shot, hospital yard
9. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Elimelek Ellien, team leader, Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED):
“We are going to put one bucket in this block and another in this block. The top was uncovered. The people inside had problems with the sun. We have already spoken with the administration. They are in the process of better placing them to permit them to receive treatment. We have also contacted others to permit us to cover this block with tarps so the sun does not shine down on them like this and they can receive the treatment needed in order for them to go home.”
10. Close up, woman hands with chlorinated water in a bucket
11. Wide shot, ACTED staff handling a bucket of chlorinated water
12. Med shot, volunteer disinfecting the floor with a chlorine solution
13. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Turin Waly, Assistant Medical Director, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Hospital:
“The work is not only done at the secondary level which is what we do at the hospital. What is most important is the work done at the community level to affect the prevention. This is the type of community medicine that we wish to put forward to stop the number of patients that are arriving daily.”
14. Zoom out, ACTED staff disinfecting bucket

Storyline

The Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) has mobilized emergency teams to respond to cholera cases in the Haitian commune of Anse d'Hainault following Hurricane Matthew.

ACTED, a French non-governmental organization which is currently working on the ground in Haiti, said it had mobilized its teams from Jeremie to the area earlier this week. Its team leader Elimelek Ellien said the local hospital did not have enough beds for the sick with over 100 cholera cases already registered. ACTED staff also reported chlorine shortages and a lack of medical staff to treat those affected.

“The situation at the hospital at the moment is that there are no beds for all the sick people to lie down. There is an elderly patient on the floor who is vomiting and we have no nurse to take charge of the patient.”

Doctor Turin Waly, Assistant Medical Director at the hospital, said work was being done at the community level to stem the outbreak. He said ACTED was taking patients’ addresses as they arrived to the hospital and sending teams to decontaminate their homes.

Anse d'Hainault is a remote town with more than 20,000 inhabitants in the southeast part of Haiti. Hurricane Matthew destroyed most of the homes in the town leaving hundreds of people without shelter.