Médecins Sans Frontières - Webclip: cholera response in Munhava health centre (ENG)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF265065

Date taken / Date Recorded 01/04/2019 12:00 AM

Country Mozambique

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Pablo Garrigos

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Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m28s

Maximum Size 720px × 720px 105.49 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist 00:00 – 00:03
This is basically a health centre for HIV,

00:03 – 00:04
tuberculosis,

00:05 – 00:07
mother and child care

00:07 – 00:09
and for people in general.

00:09 – 00:10
So, all these patients were left

00:11 – 00:12
without access to healthcare.

00:13 – 00:15
They stayed at least 3 to 5 days

00:16 – 00:18
without receiving antiretrovirals,

00:19 – 00:20
without receiving any medication,

00:20 – 00:22
which has dramatically affected these patients,

00:23 – 00:25
because they were left
without assistance

00:25 – 00:26
and began to develop other disease.

00:27 – 00:30
After the cyclone
and heavy rain as well,

00:31 – 00:33
we have started
to see several cases

00:33 – 00:34
that were already expected,

00:35 – 00:37
such as acute diarrhea
and cholera.

00:38 – 00:41
Cholera is a bacterial diarrhea

00:42 – 00:44
that causes extreme dehydration,

00:45 – 00:46
so one of the main elements

00:47 – 00:49
of cholera treatment is hydration,

00:50 – 00:51
either by infusion or oral,

00:52 – 00:54
especially for those at risk,

00:55 – 00:57
such as pregnant women,
children and the elderly.

00:58 – 00:59
So our main challenges are

01:00 – 01:01
to be able to accommodate these patients,

01:02 – 01:03
because we know that
in the next four weeks

01:04
the tendency,

01:05 – 01:06
because of the incubation period,

01:07 – 01:08
is the number of cases
to increase,

01:09 – 01:10
so we need to be able
to accommodate the patients,

01:11 – 01:13
to provide
a good infrastructure,

01:14
to recruit more staff

01:15 – 01:17
and to create appropriate
treatment centres

01:17
for these patients.

TEXT:
SINCE THE DECLARATION OF THE CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN BEIRA,

MSF IS TREATING MORE THAN A HUNDRED PATIENTS PER DAY IN THREE HEALTH CENTRES.

Special instructions ⚠ Small mistake in this video, Quezia is Medical doctor, not epidemiologist. New version (corrected) of this video will be uplaoded asap. Sorry.