Haiti 2010: earthquake and aftermath

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Haiti 2010: earthquake and aftermath

22 Jan 2010 at 16.53 Earthquake 7.0 on Richter scale Epicentre 15km south of Port au Prince 70% of city destroyed Major emergency

22 January 2010

What are the basic humanitarian needs of the population?

Initial Rapid Assessment Assessing needs? What information is needed? Sources of information?

What does a person need? Water? Shelter? Food? Sanitation? Healthcare? Hospital: orthopaedics, reconstructive surgery, wounds, burns, obstetric, surgical Health centre: diarrhoea, measles, ARI

What are the basic humanitarian needs of the population? Water 20l per person / day Shelter 3.5m2 / person in each tent 30m2 / person camp area Food 2000kcal / person / day Sanitation safe disposal of human waste Healthcare Hospital: orthopaedics, reconstructive surgery, wounds, burns, obstetric, surgical Health centre: diarrhoea, measles, ARI

30 January 2010 You have arrived to work in a camp 400 international agencies have arrived Estimates: 220,000 deaths 300,000 injuries 1.5 million people displaced You have arrived to work in a camp with 10,000 displaced Haitians in a tented settlement

What are major health threats? Where you work 1500 tents in 10 sectors Water delivered and stored in aluminium drums Trench latrine 80 bed tented hospital 18 Haitian and 5 international staff 3 doctors, 8 nurses What are major health threats?

Major health threats Injuries, trauma Communicable diseases IIDs, ARI, measles, risk of outbreaks? Non-communicable diseases Mental health Obstetric emergencies Malnutrition Potential contamination of water supply

You are asked to set up an early warning surveillance system Health events? What information do you want? How will this be collected?

Mortality Hospital Community health workers Burials Morbidity OPD