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HAITI / MEDICAL EFFORTS
STORY: UN/ MEDICAL EFFORTS
TRT: 1.40
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 16 JANUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
1. Wide shot, interior of wrecked Doctors without Borders Trauma hospital
2. Zoom out, Doctors without Borders sign zoom out to residents looking through gate of trauma hospital
3. Wide shot, patients waiting for medical care on the street
4. Med shot, Haitian nurses providing limited medical care in the street
5. Med shot, survivor in the street
6. Wide shot, residents carrying wounded woman in the street in a wheel barrow
7. Wide shot, injured person getting carried into makeshift clinic in a damaged school
8. Med shot, injured person being carried into makeshift clinic
9. Wide shot, injured persons on the floor
10. Med shot, dirty table with a few medical supplies on it
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Luc Beaucourt, Emergency Aid Worker, Antwerp University Hospital:
"The main cases are fractures, open fractures; we have a lot of open wounds, very big wounds, a lot of trauma to the head. Plus just now when we arrived, there were a lot of people still on the roads. And it was not possible to stop and help. It was very frustrating as a doctor that we couldn't help. We try to work a little bit together with the local people."
12. Med shot, medical worker performing surgery
13. Wide shot, medical workers operating
14. Med shot, child with facial injuries
15. Med shot, residents putting an injured woman on a table
16. Med shot, medical workers inspecting a woman's leg wound
17. Close up, close up on the open leg wound
18. Med shot, medical worker unwrapping infected bandages on a foot
19. Close up, infected wounds on a foot
20. Med shot, worker disinfecting infected face wound
21. Close up, close up on the face wound
22. Wide shot, residents put a wounded victim on a table
The earthquake that devastated Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday destroyed the offices of Doctors without Borders hampering their operation when they are needed the most.
While search and rescue efforts are still going on, looking for victims in the building’s wreckage, people in the area are flocking to it's doors desperately looking for help, not knowing there is no medical capacity inside.
Many sit out on the street, and Haitian nurses have been filling the gap, attending them for the moment.
Other victims are being brought to a nearby school where a Belgian NGO set up a provisional clinic in a damaged school. They are lacking materials, and are facing serious injuries - fractures and open wounds.
The main concern now is infections, and the lack of medical supplies could cause a very dangerous situation in the coming days.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Luc Beaucourt, Emergency Aid Worker, Antwerp University Hospital:
"The main cases are fractures, open fractures; we have a lot of open wounds, very big wounds, a lot of trauma to the head. Plus just now when we arrived, there were a lot of people still on the roads. And it was not possible to stop and help. It was very frustrating as a doctor that we couldn't help. We try to work a little bit together with the local people."
Doctors without Borders/ Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. It provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.
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