(7 Jun 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Piura - 2 June 2023
1. Various of fumigation works being carried out to prevent spread of dengue
2. Worker from the Piura municipality fumigating a street
3. Various of two children lying on a bed with dengue fever
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ana Barco, 34, mother of two children with dengue:
"The fever was very high, and the bone pain was horrible. They (the children) were crying because of it. We bathed them and wet them with cold cloths, to reduce the fever. They didn't want to eat anything."
5. Barco putting mosquito netting on bed
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Piura - 3 June 2023
6. Ybis Rosales, mother with dengue, on bed
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ybis Rosales, 29, mother with dengue:
"I had to go back to work, but I had a relapse of dengue and had to go home. They told me to rest and that they would call me back, but they did not. Now I am out of work with two children to support and rent to pay."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Piura - 4 June 2023
8. Various of sewage drains with dirty water and garbage
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Piura - 2 June 2023
9. Various of people queuing to receive treatment at Hospital Jorge Reategui
10. Doctor talking to patient at Reategui Hospital
11. Various of room with dengue patients with beds with mosquito nets
12. Hospital corridors with patients
13. Nurse checking patient
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Piura - 3 June 2023
14. Nurse working at La Videnita field hospital, where many patients with dengue fever are being treated
15. Dr. Percy Minaya, High Commissioner of Peru's Ministry of Health, speaking to patient
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Percy Minaya, High Commissioner of Peru's Ministry of Health:
"We have had a large number of deaths. That is mainly due to the late seeking of medical help. That is key."
17. Various of patients at field hospital
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Piura - 2 June 2023
18. Nurse Pedro Coyantes with Dengue patients at the San Pedro Health Center
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pedro Coyantes, Nurse at San Pedro Health Center:
"Two important things. To provide good health care, we need infrastructure. We don't have it. And we need trained personnel. We don't have that either."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Piura - 4 June 2023
20. Aerial shot of San Pablo neighborhood in Piura ++MUTE++
21. Maria Galan lying in her bed with dengue fever symptoms, with her husband sitting on her side
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Galan, 47, woman with dengue fever symptoms:
"When you have money, you can go to the doctor and heal fast. But it is expensive to pay a doctor."
23. Woman holding a poster reading (Spanish): "Dengue is killing us. We ask for support for our families."
24. San Pablo residents protesting, asking government for assistance
STORYLINE:
The northern Peruvian city of Piura has become the epicenter of the largest dengue epidemic in the country's history.
Houses and streets of neighbourhoods where the disease was rampant were being fumigated this week in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease.
More than 129,000 people have been infected and 191 people have died of disease, transmitted by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The figure makes the country the second with the most cases in the Americas, only behind Brazil, according to Pan American Health Organization data.
Authorities in Piura say some 30,000 schoolchildren and 4,000 teachers have been infected.
A local school was reported to be forced to return to virtual classes after one student died, while 150 students and 33 teachers were infected.
"That is mainly due to the late seeking of medical help. That is key."
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