Field hospital in Dhunche
The Red Cross is building field hospitals in remote areas. Canadian Red Cross has deployed a field hospital to Dhunche in corporation with the Philippine Red Cross and the Hong Kong Red Cross. The road to the town is blocked so helicopters have sent in the equipment from Kathmandu. In the village, high in the Himalaya, many houses and the hospital had been destroyed. Helicopters fly back and forth to the village to transport relief supplies, wounded and deceased mountaineers.
SHOTLIST
00:00 Title
00:15 General shots of women and children outside the tents of the destroyed hospital
00:39 Doctors treating patients inside hospital
01:05 Shots of patients sleeping in hospital
01:13 Shots of badly damaged hospital interior
01:47 External shots of hospital site and tent construction material. 02:29 Shot of collapsed hospital building
02:48 Helicopter landing with supplies
02:55 Volunteers and military personnel unloading supplies from helicopter
03:18 Internal shot of Field hospital tent
03:30 Shot of field hospital tent.
03:42 interview with team leader Hossam Elsharkawi
We are putting up the first part of the field hospital. This first tent here, we will have some of the key drugs and consumables required moved into it so we no longer get any further damage to the drugs.
A medical post did exist before the earthquake. This post has been damaged and is no longer functional. Our field hospital will act as temporary surge to give them the facility, the infrastructure and some of the personnel to help them continue the service and this seems to be much required in this community and all of the surrounding villages that this hospital use to serve before the earthquake.
Information we have heard from the medical staff and the locals indicates that some villages have not be accessed yet. The roads are not open. The army is running some sort of helicopter rescue service but they have also told us that they have not reached every place. So it’s probably given the nature of what we have seen so far. It is safe to assume there are many out there that haven not been provided medical assistance yet.
We will be providing service with the local medical staff here, to those affected by the earthquake and also those who just require the normal medical services of a community of this nature. We have a 40-bed facility they already have a 15-bed facility they have managed to salvage a little bit in one building. This hospital use to be 6-7 buildings. Only 1 now is functional and housing everything.
So I think this surge we are bringing in will probably allow them to treat whatever situation is thrown at them. I’m guessing we can admit up to 50-60 people if needed. The tough nature and the remoteness of the region here probably will not get that number of patients but we are ready for that number of patients.
Medical assistance will always be a priority and clearly also those who have not been reached will require some sort of shelter, protection from the elements. its very cold here. the first thing that we observed when we landed here yesterday was pretty strong thunder storm, heavy-heavy rains and we are entering soon the rainy season. Other types of items to protect people from the cold, blankets, sheeting, temporary housing, thins to help fix their shelter I think would be top priorities.
Any wound of any nature if not treated will get infected and then it becomes potentially a killer, so all wounds have to be treated. Fractures have to be treated, and so this is the abc's of providing first aid in triage medical evacuations. the sad reality is that people in many places around here are probably having to somehow live with their wounds till the medical assistance arrives.
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