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HAITI / CHOLERA HOSPITAL
STORY: HAITI / CHOLERA HOSPITAL
TRT: 01:59
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 8 NOVEMBER 2016, HOPITAL IMMACULEE CONCEPTION, LES CAYES, HAITI.
1. Med shot, pickup truck carrying coolers with vaccines
2. Med shot, participants in cholera vaccination campaign
3. Close up, cholera campaign t-shirt
4. Pan left, woman carrying cooler with cholera vaccines
5. Close up, cooler with cholera vaccines
6. Med shot, campaign participants filling paperwork
7. Close up, campaign participants filling paperwork
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Akhil Iyer, Haiti Chief Emergency Officer, UNICEF:
“We have to attack cholera on multiple fronts, and implementing a successful vaccination campaign is only one of the fronts, one of the elements in the fight against cholera.”
9. Close up, hands holding box containing vaccine
10. Med shot, people waiting to be vaccinated
11. Close up, hands holding vaccine bottle
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jean-Luc Poncelet PAHO / WHO Representative for Haiti:
“The challenge for this vaccination campaign is first of all to reach everybody. As you know there are areas of the country that are not easy to access. Even before the hurricane it was kind of difficult, but the hurricane has complicated very it very seriously. So, road transport, bridges, etc., is a serious difficulty. So, reaching the people physically is one issue, the other issue is security. We have to ensure that there is no trouble; that the people can access without having interference from demonstrations or other adverse situations.”
13. Med shot, baby receiving vaccine
14. Cloe up box of vaccines
15. Med shot, woman receiving vaccine
16. Close up, paperwork
17. Med shot, woman with child receiving vaccine
18. Med shot, baby receiving vaccine
19. Wide shot, women and children leaving hospital
A vaccination campaign against cholera was conducted on Tuesday (8 Nov) at the Hopital Immaculee Conception, in Les Cayes, one of the areas of Haiti hit hard by Hurricane Matthew.
The campaign is being supported by the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and others.
UNICEF’s Chief Emergency Officer in Haiti, Akhil Iyer, emphasised that cholera needs to be tackled “on multiple fronts.”
He said implementing a successful vaccination campaign “is only one of the fronts” in the fight against cholera” and stressed the need for clean and safe water and other hygienic measures.
The PAHO / WHO Representative for Haiti, Dr. Jean-Luc Poncelet, said security and accessibility are the main challenges for this vaccination campaign.
Poncelet said “there are areas of the country that are not easy to access. Even before the hurricane it was kind of difficult, but the hurricane has complicated very it very seriously. So, road transport, bridges, etc., is a serious difficulty.”
He stressed that “we have to ensure that there is no trouble; that the people can access without having interference from demonstrations or other adverse situations.”
According to a news release from PAHO / WHO, the decision of WHO and other members of the Global Task Force for Cholera Control to approve the request of the Haitian Ministry of Health (MSPP) to bring one million doses of oral vaccine against cholera is based on the goal of reducing the burden of cholera cases on health care facilities, and of reducing deaths in the departments of the Sud and Grand’Anse.
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