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STORY: HAITI / CHOLERA UPDATE
TRT: 2.31
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6, 10, 11 NOVEMBER 2010, ARTIBONITE REGION, HAITI
6 NOVEMBER 2010, ARTIBONITE, HAITI
1. Various shots, aerial views of flooded crops in Artibonite region
10 NOVEMBER 2010, ARTIBONITE, HAITI
2. Various shots, flooded crops
3. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Louisifi Louis, Farmer:
“We lost cows, we lost pigs. I had two cows and they were washed away.”
11 NOVEMBER 2010, GONAIVES, HAITI
4. Wide shot, collapsed dyke
5. Wide shot, destroyed banana field
6. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Joanene Compere, Farmers Union, Gonaives:
“All the canals are made of earth. The ministry of Agriculture should do something about it. There are not safe. As soon it rains, they collapse.”
11 NOVEMBER 2010, ARTIBONITE, HAITI
7. Various shots, flooded houses
8. Various shots, water treatment stations
11 NOVEMBER 2010, GONAIVES, HAITI
9. Wide shot, Hospital Raboto
10. Close up, sick child being treated
11. Med shot, nurse taking care of sick man
12. Close up, nurse taking out the IV needle
13. Close up, sleeping child with IV
14. Pan right, overcrowded hall of hospital onto room
10 NOVEMBER 2010, ARTIBONITE, HAITI
15. Wide shot, flooded rice field
16. Wide shot, mud in yard
17. Tilt up, mud in a house
18. Pan left, house onto Artibonite river
19. Med shot, Artibonite river
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Leo Kortkaas:
“At FAO together with the Ministry of Agriculture, we are trying everything to sensitize the rural world and convince farmers that there is no danger for them to work in the fields”
6 NOVEMBER 2010, ARTIBONITE, HAITI
21. Wide shot, aerial view of the Artibonite valley
In Haiti, cholera has become the main threat as it reaches more and more regions.
According to United Nations (UN) Office for Humanitarian Coordination (OCHA), 796 people died of the disease while a total of 12,303 patients were being treated in hospitals and Cholera Treatment Centers.
In the Artibonite region, the damage caused by Hurricane Tomas was still to be seen.
Rice and banana fields remained flooded and the extent of damage on crops and livestock was still to be evaluated.
The region is the second most populated of the country made up of mostly farmers who feel abandoned.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Joanene Compere, farmers union, Gonaives:
“All the canals are made of earth. The ministry of Agriculture should do something about it. There are not safe. As soon it rains, they collapse.”
The latest floods have also made the cholera in this region even worse. New cases of deaths are being reported from Gonaives every day, but the worst is yet to come, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Today, farmers remain worried about working in the fields because they fear they could be contaminated.
SOUNDBITE (FRENCH) Leo Kortkaas:
“At FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) together with the Ministry of Agriculture, we are trying everything to sensitize the rural world and convince farmers that there is no danger for them to work in the fields”
Meanwhile UN agencies and their partners today (12 November) appealed for $164 million to support Haiti’s efforts to fight the deadly cholera outbreak that has already claimed several hundred lives in the small Caribbean nation.
The funds sought for the Cholera Inter-Sector Response Strategy for Haiti will go towards getting additional doctors, medicines and water purification equipment to respond to the epidemic, which has spread quickly since it was first confirmed on 22 October.
