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HAITI / HOSPITAL REAX
STORY: HAITI / UN HOSPITAL REAX
TRT: 3.05
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JANUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Pan left, exterior of the ‘Hospital Universitaire de la Paix’ (in Delmas 33 neighbourhood) with injured lying on the ground
2. Various shots, interior of hospital with injured laying down everywhere
3. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Dr. Marislain Sainte Fleur, Hospital de la Paix, Director:
" No no no, there was no evacuation yesterday. There are too many rumors."
4. Med shot, exterior of the ‘Hospital Universitaire de la Paix’
5. SOUNDBITE (English) David Wimhurst, Chief, Public Information, MINUSTAH:
“Well we checked into this immediately of course and we were extremely concerned to hear this news and we discovered that no instructions by the UN or even security officials or any other officials have been issued to any medical staff in any medical facility in Haiti to stop working.”
6. Zoom out, exterior ‘Laboratoire National de Sante Publique’
7. Wide shot, Belgian first aid and support team B-Fast
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonas Seherens, Aid Worker, B-FAST Mission:
“There are Canadian soldiers here, how ever they had to leave yesterday at four o’clock in the afternoon to pick up other orders with other troops that were arriving at that time. That meant the B-Fast mission was operational at that time at giving first care to the people here. They made them pack there stuff in the evening and go to sleep at the airport. This morning they come back, they’re putting up everything again and they’re going to stay.”
9. Wide shot, interior ‘Hospital Universitaire de la Paix’with injured laying all around
10. SOUNDBITE (English) David Wimhurst, Chief, Public Information, MINUSTAH:
“We have more easily more than four thousand uniforms patrolling. Their job is of course to guarantee the security of all plants in conjunction with the Haitian National Police which is operating about 50 percent of its capacity right now, don’t forget many of their police stations were crushed in the earthquake. And our forces and the police are ensuring that the roads are open so that the humanitarian assistance can get through.”
11. Tilt up, from box of medicines from the Ministry of Health of Chile to interior hospital
12. Med shot, box being opened
13. Wide shot, Chilean medical teams
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Bolduc, Head of Humanitarian Effort at UN:
“I think that under the circumstances, the best has been done. WFP and the distribution for relief items with IOM and the UN system has a capacity to attend, provided we have fuel, security and some order established, has a capacity to distribute to 1.5 million people. We can reach that level."
15. Wide shot, interior of hospital flooded with patients
16. Med shot, medical team assisting patients inside hospital
17. Med shot, child being assisted
18. Med shot, family in hospital
Spokesman for the mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) David Wimhurst said today that no instructions by the United Nations (UN), security officials or any other officials were issued to any medical staff in any medical facility in Haiti to stop working.
He was responding to a report given by CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta that said that Belgian doctors and nurses were asked to walk away last night (15 Jan) from a field hospital by UN officials due to security concerns, leaving the hospital empty and the patients alone.
Fearing that some victims would not survive the night Gupta and his television crew stayed with the injured over night treating them.
Officials say the hospitals that CNN covered last were in Delmas 33, a
neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. The first hospital, De La Paix said there were no
evacuations. The second which is not a UN facility, said they have Canadian
soldiers non UN, who left at four.
Jonas Seherens, an Aid Worker with the Belgian ‘B-FAST Mission’ said that the B-Fast mission was operational at that time giving first care to the people here, but they were asked to pack there stuff in the evening and go to sleep at the airport. Seherens added that this morning they came back to the site.
While there have been reports of looting and violence in the streets, Wimhurst said that the UN had more than four thousand uniforms patrolling, and their job was to guarantee security in conjunction with the Haitian National Police which is operating in about 50 percent of its capacity.
Medical relief teams are still arriving and racing to help victims.
Chile who has a group of 505 military personnel in Haiti as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force there has sent medical assistance in shape of medicines
Kim Bolduc, the head of the Humanitarian effort said that WFP and IOM with the UN system had the capacity to distribute assistance to 1.5 million people provided they had fuel, security and some order established.
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