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HAITI / ISRAEL HOSPITAL

An Israeli field hospital in Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince is working around the clock to bring specialized care to children injured in the earthquake that devastated the Western hemisphere's poorest country last week. MINUSTAH

Duration:02:20Date:18 January 2010

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COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES, MEDICAL PRACTICE, HUMANITARIAN AID AND RELIEF, PROTECTION OF AND ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS, DISASTER PREVENTION, PREPAREDNESS AND RELIEF, HAITI, United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti

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STORY: HAITI/ ISRAELI HOSPITAL
TRT: 2.20
SOURCE: MINUSTAH 
RESTRICTIONS: NONE 
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 18 JANUARY 2010, LEOGANE, HAITI

SHOTLIST:

1.	Wide shot, Israeli Medical Corps hospital in a steel factory courtyard in Cite Soleil (Port-au-Prince)
2.	Close up, sign for Israeli hospital
3.	SOUNDBITE (English) Gili Shenhar, Hospital Director:
"We have treated more than 200 people already. We are taking only the severe cases, in order to take really good care of these people, and to give them the ability to survive."
4.	Pan left, cots with injured patients
5.	Med shot, woman with amputated arm
6.	Pan left, doctors caring for patients
7.	Close up, patient’s injuries
8.	Zoom in from exterior to interior of pediatrics unit
9.	Med shot, injured baby
10.	Tilt up, injured young man
11.	Close up,  IV bag
12.	Pan right, mother caring for injured child
13.	Close up, injured child
14.	Close up, baby drinking from bottle
15.	Close up, woman’s hand holding baby’s hands
16.	Med shot, injured baby
17.	SOUNDBITE (English) Tarif Bader, Pediatrician:
"This baby came here with a serious infection to his leg. It could be a very easy decision to have this leg amputated. We consulted with orthopedics and we decided to give him serious antibiotics, and try to save his leg."
18.	Med shot, doctor and injured child
19.	Med shot, doctors taking notes
20.	Zoom in, baby in incubator
21.	Zoom in, doctor looking at X-ray of broken leg
22.	Pan right, doctor’s carrying injured woman in a stretcher

STORYLINE

The hospital, set up in tents in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest areas in Port-au-Prince, has already taken in 250 patients, most of them children, and many in desperate conditions.

SOUNDBITE (English) Gili Shenhar, Hospital Director:
"We have treated more than 200 people already. We are taking only the severe cases, in order to take really good care of these people, and to give them the ability to survive."

The hospital has a two week mandate and doctors have performed 140 surgeries, including amputations. They continue to take people in, opting for those who need life saving interventions rather than long term care.

Many of the children have infected and neglected wounds and some of the patients were pulled out of the rubble after being trapped for days, others had been turned away from other hospitals.

SOUNDBITE (English) Tarif Bader, Pediatrician:
"This baby came here with a serious infection to his leg. It could be a very easy decision to have this leg amputated. We consulted with orthopedics and we decided to give him serious antibiotics, and try to save his leg."

While five patients have died at the hospital, three babies were born.

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