2010年1月24日星期日
Fears of disease and child trafficking in Haiti
the organis says,BARBARA MILLER: Giant Inflatable Water Slides The Unite State ha fast-track adopt procedur for Haitian children alreadi match to American families. But UNICEF stress that the prioriti for those believ to have been orphan by thi latest disast should alwai be to try and locat famili members. Foreign adopt at thi earli stage. should onli be a last resort.
but French aid worker sai they'v detect movement under a pile of rubbl 12 dai after the earthquake. The rescuer sai they'r not sure whether they'v detect a human or an animal,ELEANOR HALL: The Haitian Govern ha declar the rescu effort offici over. but thei ar work to find out.
the focu now is on secur buildings,And as other rescu team pull out. feed survivor and keep diseas at bay.
Barbara Miller prepar thi report.
000 peopl were kill in last week' earthquake. Mani more have been left without shelter,BARBARA MILLER: Haiti' Govern sai at least 150. food or water and thei line up in their thousand to receiv supplies.
Nois of suppli line-up
intern worker ar turn their attent to other mattersWith the rescu effort now offici over..
SPANISH FIREFIGHTER translat : Our task now sinc the rescu and search oper have end is to supervis the public build like hospit and school and see to their safety. If we see that thei ar danger we will secur those build with wood structur to stabilis them.
BARBARA MILLER: But there is still the small chanc that someon is aliv under the rubble. A French team sai it' work to determin whether movement it radar ha detect ha come from a human or anim within the debris.
And the young man pull from the rubbl over the weekend Wismond Exantu sai he think the rescu effort should continue:
becaus a lot of peopl give up hope,WISMOND EXANTUS translat : Yes. that I could surviv for so long and thei found me. If I am alive, there ar other still alive.
BARBARA MILLER: Wismond Exantu sai God and some junk food were crucial to hi survival.
yesterdai my brother found me. I said it is me,WISMOND EXANTUS translat : I wa down there knock and yell and no on heard me. As a stroke of luck from God. I'm under the store and my brother and my friend went to get help.
now I can live for on more day. I said to God,For all those dai I wa search for my cell phone then I found a case of Coca-Cola and potato chip and I said okay. if you save me, I will be your servant.
BARBARA MILLER: After other earthquak there have been isol case of peopl surviv for more than two weeks. And Gillian Dacei a British medic worker sai the decis to end rescu effort is alwai a difficult one:
at the back of your mind,GILLIAN DARCY: Always. there is that question, have we got everybodi out but equal in overal term of the whole recoveri phase in respons to the earthquake, you must start to get the heavy-lift equip in and you must start to pull awai and clear the rubbl and that is gener done and start onc you declar that the search and rescu phase is over.
So that declar is actual the begin of anoth phase of the recoveri to the earthquak and it is veri import to do that.
but the situat is be close monitoredBARBARA MILLER: But the focu now is on the survivors. So far there' been no major outbreak of disease..
Mirta Rose is the director of the Pan American Health Organization.
you know and the surveil that ha been establish is not show major problem but the peopl have been establish in temporari settlement and that will be a riski area and there is anoth thing and thi ar the peopl who have fled into the country,MIRTA ROSES: The reporting. particularli to the north, that ar go to be expos to other risk so we have to keep an ey on that.
BARBARA MILLER: There ar also grow concern for the welfar of unaccompani children in Haiti. The Unite Nation Children' Fund sai it' work close with local organis to try to stop a wave of child trafficking.
Martin Thoma is the spokesman for UNICEF Australia.
MARTIN THOMAS: We ar visit hospitals. We ar get our staff member and even volunt and famili member to visit and regist as mani children as we can wherev thei are. We know there is child protect messag be broadcast on local radio station which is incred helpful.
I guess,It is. a breakdown of the social fabric there in Haiti which make anyth that you try to do incred difficult.