Webclip EN_Preparing to Respond to COVID-19 at Kutupalong Hospital

A video diary with Head Nurse of Kutupalong Hospital, Liyana. She describes recent changes to the hospital facilities and services in preparation for responding to COVID-19, and gives a tour of the new severe acute respiratory isolation ward which was recently built using repurposed materials.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF319059

Date taken / Date Recorded 12/05/2020 12:00 AM

Country Bangladesh

Commissioning section MSF-UNITED STATES

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

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

Duration 3m27s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1920px 324.32 MB

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(00:00) Hi everyone, I’m Liyana. I am a nurse from the US and I’m here working as a nurse at Kutupalong Hospital in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh (00:09)

(00:10) Cox’s Bazar

(00:13) Kutupalong hospital services over 600,000 Rohingya refugees, as well as local Bangladeshi communities in the area

(00:22) So here at the hospital, it’s once again turning into an emergency project as we make an extension of the hospital as a dedicated isolation zone. So we’ve been reorganizing a lot of the wards, a lot of the services, deprioritize some of the services, in order to allocate all of our resources and our staffing to the isolation area. (00:44)

(00:45) Bithy, infection prevention & control (IPC) supervisor, trained the hygienists on how to properly use protective gear

(00:53) While Rakib, ER nurse supervisor, trained nurses working in the new isolation ward

(01:02) Every person who comes to the hospital is first screened for fever and respiratory symptoms

(01:09) Patients with no COVID-19 symptoms go to the main triage area

(01:15) While patients with possible COVID-19 symptoms go to a separate triage area in the new severe acute respiratory isolation ward

(01:24) A very important part of the preparations...handwashing points!

(01:29) Handwashing points have been placed all over the hospital compound

(01:36) Everyone who enters the isolation area must first wash their hands

(01:43) This photo was taken just 2 weeks before the isolation ward opened!

(01:49) This has been a coordinated effort with all of our teams working together to make this possible. It’s much more difficult these days due to the lockdown. So it has been extremely difficult and extremely challenging to get supplies from the outside because everything is basically shut down.

So we’re trying to be creative with the resources that we have, and supplies we have, in order to make this isolation zone possible.

(02:16) Bashar, Mohammed

(02:18) And their team of logisticians worked around the clock to build the new ward

(02:22) They found creative ways to repurpose materials

(02:28) The logistics team renovated this space, repurposing 2 bamboo pavilions to create a 30-bed isolation area in just 10 days

(02:40) There are 6 beds in single rooms

(02:47) And 14 beds in cohort rooms

(02:57) And this is a 10-bed overflow ward, outfitted with electricity

(03:06) I know this is a really difficult time for everyone right now in the world. But we thank you so much, to everyone who has been willing to donate and to help us out as we care for some of the most vulnerable populations in the world. It means so much and it makes a huge, huge difference. Thank you so much, everyone.

(03:24) Find out more at DoctorsWithoutBorders.org
Photo + Video: Liyana Winchell
Editor: Negin Allamehzadeh