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STORY: HAITI / MATTHEW CHOLERA
TRT: 02:32
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 OCTOBER 2016, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI / RECENT
11 OCTOBER 2016, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, press room
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Luc Poncelet, Representative in Haiti, World Health Organization:
“Lot of measures have been put in place across the country to respond to Cholera outbreak. When there is an alert we respond. The response was good and it led to decrease of 90 percent of cases of Cholera compared to beginning of the outbreak. So this response mechanism needs to continue. Unfortunately, in the months before the hurricane there was a drop in financing of this response so we had an increase in the number of cases already before the hurricane.”
3. Med shot, videographers
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Luc Poncelet, Representative in Haiti, World Health Organization:
“Water is very essential. A population without water and without food is a population which we cannot heal. Therefore we must encourage all the institutions to deliver treated water, chlorinated water. Every house has to have access to chlorinated water.”
RECENT – 6 OCTOBER, 2016, DEPARTMENT SUD, HAITI
5. Aerial shot, flooded land
6. Aerial shot, mountain
7. Close up, photographer taking aerial photo
8. Wide shot, locals walking
9. Wide shot, makeshift shelter
10. Wide shot, destroyed home
11. Wide shot, people walking in street
12. Med shot, people looking in rubble
13. Wide shot, emergency vehicles racing through street
14. Med shot, driving through destroyed neighbourhood
15. Wide shot, rubble in street
16. Aerial shot, destruction
17. Various aerial shots, flooded city
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative in Haiti said “every house has to have access to chlorinated water” to eliminate the risk of diarrheal diseases including cholera.
Speaking to the press in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday (11 Oct), Jean Luc Poncelet said many measures had been put in place across the country to respond to the cholera outbreak which led to a decrease in the number of cases by “90 percent.” He said, “Unfortunately, in the months before the hurricane there was a drop in financing of this response so we had an increase in the number of cases already before the hurricane.”
Poncelet said his organization was encouraging the support of existing resources in Haiti, including the Ministry of Health, by transferring personnel from other part of the country to the affected areas. He said, “The main party that can aid the Haitians is the Haitians themselves.” Poncelet said many people in Haiti were unemployed and “encouraging that those people be employed in order to help the impoverished population is the first thing we should do.”
Poncelet said WHO expects an increase in cholera cases but the numbers currently being reported “should be taken with precautions.” He said cases were being reported by rumours or through social media “which are not always the most reliable.”
Haiti was ravaged last week by hurricane Matthew as it was already dealing with a cholera epidemic. WHO said over two million Haitians were affected and 372 people lost their lives in the aftermath of the hurricane.
