(9 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 09 May 2024
1. Various of nurses weighing and measuring children’s body mass
2. Nurse measures a girl’s height
3. Various of nurse weighs and measures body mass of child
4. Carole Camille holding her daughter
5. SOUNDBITE (Haitian creole) Carole Camille, mother of baby:
“Well when I can buy food it is only potato and flour or Gerber (baby food). Sometimes , if I have money I give him milk if don’t have money, can’t give him any milk.”
6. Various of mothers with children at the University Hospital of Peace
7. Various of Dr. Florence Siné Saint-Surin visiting children in the hospital
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Doctor Florence Siné Saint-Surin, pediatrician, La Paix Hospital:
“The costs are minimal, but the parents have to pay. The mothers that don’t have the possibility to feed their children, to eat properly can’t also afford to pay for the medication and the fees for the exams and treatment.”
9. Dr. Siné Saint-Surin during interview
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Doctor Florence Siné Saint-Surin, Pediatrician, la Paix Hospital:
“What we are seeing here is a phenomenon where not only the children are malnourished, but their parents are also malnourished.”
11. Various of mothers receiving food supplements for their children
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 09 May 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jules Roberto Bernard, Save the Children Food Security & Livelihoods CVA Technical Advisor:
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“The first one is malnutrition. We have the highest rate of malnutrition ever experienced (in this country) – The second one is that people, including children are joining the gangs and that put their lives in risk because in confrontation with the police the gangs put children in the front lines of their operation and the third one is the risk to girls and women who have been turned to prostitution.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 09 May 2024
13. Various of mothers with their children lining up to be seen
STORYLINE:
Haiti is facing the highest number of malnourished children ever according to the country’s health ministry.
Non-government organization Save the Children reported some 82,000 children are suffering acute malnourishment in the capital alone.
Gang violence that now affects over 80 percent of Port-au-Prince has forced thousands of families to flee their homes, leading to unemployment and inflation.
At the La Paix hospital, one of the few remaining hospitals still open in the capital, mothers bring their children to be weighed and treated. But families that can barely afford to feed themselves also struggle to pay the small fee charged by the hospital and to buy medicine.
Doctor Florence Siné Saint-Surin , pediatrician at La Paix Hospital in Port-au-Prince pointed out that “not only the children are malnourished, but their parents are malnourished as well.”
Four million people face “acute food insecurity” and one million of them are one step away from famine, according to the U.N food agency.
Insecurity is hampering people from doing simple things like taking their children to school, or going to the supermarket or work, all of which which is extremely risky.
A report from the Save the Children organisation released on Wednesday brought to light yet another consequence of hunger.
Hunger is driving Haiti’s children and adolescents to join violent gangs.
Save the Children has received reports that some children and adolescents have killed, kidnapped and looted to get food.
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