Médecins Sans Frontières - Direct consequences of violence on the population

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB111202

Date taken / Date Recorded 01/10/2021 12:00 AM

Country Haiti

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Pierre Fromentin

Copyright MSF

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

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format mpeg2video (4:2:2)

Duration 2m36s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 1.14 GB

Additional Information / Shotlist Manuelle Lina, Patient
At no point had I lost consciousness in all this and there was a a motorcyclist shouting "The lady is not dead, she is still breathing."

TEXT ON SCREEN Manuelle lives in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Pregnant with twins,
she was returning
from the market.

Manuelle Lina, Patient
I took two steps and felt something pushing me. I can't tell who or what it was, I didn't see anything so I don't know.

I fell on my stomach and a car coming my direction hit me. It dragged me along for a distance. Before anyone could help me, a second car hit me.

TEXT ON SCREEN Manuelle was injured by vehicles fleeing a shootout between armed groups.

She was admitted
to the emergency room
at MSF’s Tabarre trauma
and burns hospital.

Manuelle Lina, Patient
On Wednesday evening the medical staff performed a sonogram: my little boy and girl were moving normally. By Thursday morning 10:00am, I had lost both of them .

Elkins Voltaire - MSF psychologist
Given that we are in a country where there are many situations, economic problems, problems of insecurity, food insecurity, road insecurity, environmental insecurity, all forms of insecurity, insecurity that also takes the form of armed gangs.

And all these are situations where every day that we go out, we are exposed to situations that can shock us and situations of stress.

TEXT ON SCREEN
MSF witnesses the consequences of
the violence every day
at the Tabarre hospital,

where patients arrive
with life-threatening injuries.

Elkins Voltaire - MSF psychologist
There are also patients injured by bullets or by knives . We have a wide range of patients admitted and they suffer trauma from various sources.

TEXT ON SCREEN Recovery from
these injuries
can be a long process.

MSF provides comprehensive care, including surgery, physiotherapy and psychological support.

Elkins Voltaire - MSF psychologist
Not only do these people have pain in their bodies but they have it in their minds too

This support plays a very, very important role in the recovery of the patient. If the body has recovered but the mind hasn't, the symptoms last longer. If the patient's mind is not in good shape, it's an obstacle for the recovery of the body.

Direct consequences of violence on the population | WEBCLIP INT

Direct consequences of violence on the population | WEBCLIP INT