[net-gold] COUNTRIES: HAITI : DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : NEWS: REPORTING: Reporter's Notebook: Nothing Can Mask Smell of Death
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- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:50:01 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: HAITI :
DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES:
Reporter's Notebook: Nothing Can Mask Smell of Death
Reporter's Notebook: Nothing Can Mask Smell of Death
By Arthur Brice, CNN
January 16, 2010 -- Updated 1611 GMT (0011 HKT)
CNN
<http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/16/brice.notebook/>
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Here are some observations four days after
Tuesday's massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti's capital:
What images can't convey
What is missing from TV or the photo images are the smells in
Port-au-Prince. Depending on where you are, it can be any combination of
strong odors that you still aren't used to after a few days. The worst, of
course, is the smell of death. You can find it nearly everywhere, but
especially close to collapsed buildings or places such as the morgue,
where about 300 bodies have been placed in the parking lot.
In a poor country with few private toilets and public facilities and a
large outdoor population, urine is a common smell. The smell of garbage,
which is strewn everywhere, is common, too.
Against the smell of death, many Haitians wear masks, bandannas or even
small pieces of orange peel wedged inside the tip of their nostrils. Many
journalists wear masks, but the masks don't eliminate the odors, just slow
them down. You bring the smells back to your hotel room, on your clothes,
your hair, your skin. You want to wash them out, especially the smell of
death, but you can't. It takes more than soap and water. The odors have
soaked your memory.
ALSO COVERED IN THIS REPORT:
Early-morning aftershocks
Tents sprouting up
Relief operations 24/7
Incessant sounds of choppers
A symphony of horns
Car repair in middle of busy thoroughfare
Hoodlums back to hold haunts
Quick showers
Lights out and often
Rush at buffet
Barking and crowing
A stream of people
Searing heat
Language barrier
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Comment:
Yesterday this Net-Gold post highlighted the limited coverage by Fox News
of this huge disaster.
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The Fox News Primetime Haitian Earthquake Blackout
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It is now time to comment about CNN.
Last evening on television Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta were talking
with each other and Sanjay was reporting from a make shift tent hospital
where a U.N. team of doctors had treated numerous Haitians. For security
reasons, Sanjay told Anderson Cooper, the U.N. doctors and staff were
ordered to leave this tent hospital and were bused to safer quarters.
Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper were clearly very disturbed by this turn
of events. The next morning, Sanjay Gupta did not provide an anticipated
news program about the medical situation in Haiti and his spot was filled
by another reporter. It seems Sanjay Gupta, a practicing physician who
was considered for a position in the United States government under the
Obama administration, spent the entire night providing medical care to
those who had had operations or were critically ill at this tent facility
by himself and then when the physician from the U.N. team were returned to
this facility the next morning, he stayed and briefed them about the
patients. CNN is not just reporting the news in Haiti, but very actively
and aggressively participating in the recovery and making those sent to
provide aid of the situations they uncover that need critical attention.
Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims
January 16, 2010 10:36 a.m. EST
CNN World
<http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/16/
haiti.abandoned.patients/?hpt=T1>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y8bg9tc>
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and
grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field
hospital Friday night after United Nations officials ordered a medical
team to evacuate the area out of security concerns, CNN Chief Medical
Correspondent Sanjay Gupta reported.
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Saturday that the world body's mission
in Haiti did not order any medical team to leave the Port-au-Prince field
hospital. If the team left, it was at the request of their own
organizations, he told CNN.
Gupta assessed the needs of the 25 patients, but there was little he could
do without supplies. And more people, some in critical condition, were
trickling in.
Gupta monitored patients' vital signs, administered painkillers and
continued intravenous drips. He stabilized three new patients in critical
condition.
"I've never been in a situation like this. This is quite ridiculous,"
Gupta said.
He reported that the doctors and nurses began returning Saturday morning.
With a dearth of medical facilities in Haiti's capital, ambulances had no
where else to take patients, some who had suffered severe trauma --
amputations and head injuries -- under the rubble. Others had suffered a
great deal of blood loss, but there were no blood supplies left at the
clinic.
Gupta feared that some would not survive the night.
He and his television crew stayed with the injured all night, long after
the medical team had left, long after the generators gave out and the
tents turned pitch black.
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