PHILIPPINES/ EMERGENCY SUPPLIES

Almost one third of Filipinos  affected by Typhoon Haiyan live on Panay Island. To address the shortage of medical supplies in rural health units across the island, UNICEF distributed emergency health kits, which contain equipment and supplies for a health post to care for 10,000 people for three months. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:53
• Production Date: 25 January 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
• Geographic Subject: PHILIPPINES
• MAMS Id: U140125b

Description

STORY: PHILIPPINES/ EMERGENCY SUPPLIES
TRT: 1.53
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 10-11 JANUARY 2014, ESTANCIA, PANAY ISLAND, PHILIPPINES

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, health center
2. Med shot, nurse Judith Dalton with mother and child
3. Close up, baby Dalton and his mother
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Judith Dalton, Nurse:
“After the typhoon, we have met many cases. The wounds, lacerated wounds and bruises and all kinds of wounds. And the most common cases also are the respiratory infections.”
5. Wide shot, Judith Dalton with a family living in a tent
6. Close up, Mother with baby that is being examined with a stethoscope
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Amirkambiz Hamedanizadeh, UNICEF Health Officer:
“Before the Yolanda they usually have around 40-50 patients per day, now they are saying around 100 and more patients. That means if they used to get the supplies good for one month, now it’s just only good for 15 days or less.”
8. Med shot, men loading boxes onto rickshaw
9. Med shot, rickshaw leaving indoor sports complex
10. Wide shot, men loading boxes
11. Wide shot, woman sorting medical supplies
12. Med shot, woman selecting medical supplies
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Judith Dalton, Nurse: "So most commonly we are using the antibiotics and the pain relievers and sometimes for the suturing.”
14. Medium Shot, health center worker with Judith Dalton and Amirkambiz Hamedanizadeh
15. SOUNDBYTE: (English) Dr. Amirkambiz Hamedanizadeh, UNICEF Health Officer: “We are seeing that the people are coming back to the same level of the health status that they have before Yolanda which is very good”
16. Wide shot, Judith Dalton with the children of Tent City
17. Wide shot, woman and young girl leaving the clinic

Storyline

Almost one third of the people affected by Typhoon Haiyan live on Panay Island.

In Estancia, in the far north-east corner of Panay Island, 118 families are still living in tents in an evacuation centre, and thousands are staying in damaged houses.

The typhoon Haiyan brought a steep rise in the number of patients at a Rural Health Unit (RHU) in Estancia. Nurse Judith Dalton described the kind of cases medical staff have to deal with now.

SOUNDBITE (English) Judith Dalton, Nurse:
“After the typhoon, we have met many cases. The wounds, lacerated wounds and bruises and all kinds of wounds. And the most common cases also are the respiratory infections.”

Before the typhoon, the health unit averaged 40 to 50 patients a day. That number has more than doubled since the disaster, meaning medical supplies are running low.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Amirkambiz Hamedanizadeh, UNICEF Health Officer:
“Before the Yolanda they usually have around 40-50 patients per day, now they are saying around 100 and more patients. That means if they used to get the supplies good for one month, now it’s just only good for 15 days or less.”

UNICEF has helped address the shortages through the distribution of emergency health kits, which contain equipment and supplies for a health post to care for 10,000 people for three months.

The emergency health kits contain essential medical devices such as bandages, stethoscopes, thermometers and medical scissors, as well as a selection of drugs typically in high demand in emergency situations. Each kit costs approximately US$8,000.

SOUNDBITE(English) Judith Dalton, Nurse:
"So most commonly we are using the antibiotics and the pain relievers and sometimes for the suturing.”

Making sure that there is at least one kit in each of the rural health units, UNICEF distributed a total of 41 kits covering health care for more than 400 000 people for the duration of three months.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Amirkambiz Hamedanizadeh, UNICEF Health Officer: “We are seeing that the people are coming back to the same level of the health status that they have before Yolanda which is very good.”

The emergency health kits were among the 100 tons of supplies flown to Cebu on 22 November, only two weeks after the typhoon, together with school-in-a-box kits, tents for temporary learning spaces and other urgent supplies.