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HAITI / FISHER – AMOS WRAP
STORY: HAITI / FISHER – AMOS WRAP
TRT: 1:40
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 OCTOBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY / 25 OCTOBER 2010, ST. MARC, HAITI
MINUSTAH - 25 OCTOBER 2010, ST. MARC, HAITI
1. Close-up, boy with cholera in his sickbed
2. Close-up, old woman in bed
3. Med shot, woman taking care of her sick daughter
UNTV - 26 OCTOBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
4. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
5. Wide shot, press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“The river is the source of the outbreaks. Some 40 percent of those living along the river have already been reached with water purification materials and the intention is to reach 100 percent of the population in the coming days.”
MINUSTAH - 25 OCTOBER 2010, ST. MARC, HAITI
7. Wide shot, Haitian flag half mast to Fisher and group among patients
8. Close up, Fisher passing through rows of patients
9. Wide shot, hospital yard with bucket in foreground
10. Wide shot, audience to Fisher talking
11. Close up, a man from Red Cross writing notes
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Fisher, Principal Deputy of the Chief, UN Mission in Haiti:
“The hospital of St. Marc, it has been stretched to the limit. Plus, it’s a hospital; it is not a cholera treatment centre. It has other cases. So, what’s been done now is to set up cholera treatment centres and cholera treatment units elsewhere. So in St Marc, Medecins Sans Frontiers are taking the lead to set up a centre for 400 beds where people could be treated and they would be totally isolated and protected. Anybody coming in and out would have to wash their hands, disinfect their boots, and they get their treatment there. And then, we disinfect St. Marc hospital and it can go back to be a hospital for everything else.”
13. Wide shot, ground of a new Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC)
14. Close up, tents of MSF
15. Wide shot, Brazilian Blue Helmets standing on gourd at the CTC
16. Close up, a Brazilian soldier with a face mask
17. Med shot, PDSRSG Fisher in conversation with representative of MSF and a Force Commander of MINUSTAH
18. Close up, sign MSF to Fisher
19. Med shot, locals gathers to watch works at CTC
20. Wide shot, CTC in St Marc
The United Nations (UN) reported that the spread of the cholera outbreak in Haiti is beginning to slow down, even as humanitarian agencies continue to step up treatment and preventive measures, with the number of cases having risen to more than 3,000, including over 250 deaths.
Today (26 October) at UN headquarters, humanitarian chief Valerie Amos confirmed that “the river is the source” of cholera in the Artibonite region in the north of Port au Prince. UN assessments show that the majority of cases involve people from rural areas where rice growing is prevalent. Health authorities report that many cases in the region involve daily workers involved in seasonal labour.
Efforts to contain the spread of the disease are the top priority for humanitarian agencies, which are trying to prevent the epidemic from reaching camps housing up to a million internally displaced persons (IDPs) left homeless by the massive earthquake in January, which devastated the capital Port-au-Prince and several other cities.
Yesterday (25 October), deputy UN special representative and humanitarian coordinator in Haiti Nigel Fisher visited St Marc in Artibonite which is located at the epicentre of the outbreak in the country.
Nigel said the hospital in St Marc “has been stretched to the limit.” He added that Medecins Sans Frontiers is setting up a treatment centre with “400 beds where people could be treated and they would be totally isolated and protected.”
The response continues to focus on stopping the spread of the outbreak by ensuring clean water and food, promoting good personal hygiene practices including hand washing and waste management.
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