1. Haiti 2010: earthquake and aftermath

2. 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

3. 22 January 2010

6. What are the basic humanitarian needs of the population?

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

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

14. 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 kcal / person / day
Sanitation safe disposal of human waste
Healthcare
Hospital: orthopaedics, reconstructive surgery, wounds, burns, obstetric, surgical
Health centre: diarrhoea, measles, ARI

15. 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

17. 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?

18. 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

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

20. Mortality
Hospital
Community health workers
Burials
Morbidity
OPD