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TAPE: EF02/0948 IN_TIME: 04:26:51 DURATION: 2:29 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Ibarra, Ecuador - November 7, 2002 SHOTLIST: 1. Various of Ibarra 2. Various water processing facility 3. Wide shot San Vicente de Paulo hospital in Ibarra 4. Mid shot hospital 5. Interior of hospital 6. Young girl getting examined 7. Young patient sleeping 8. Close shot IV 9. Young boy being given medicine 10. Young man getting treatment 11. Various families inside hospital with children 12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Patient: "From drinking water. It was dirty water, we drank it at school and I got sick." 13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Patient: "I drank a glass of water in the morning, by the afternoon I had fever. Very bad, I can't get over it." 14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Patient: "Terrible stomach ache, from drinking water with my medication. I thought, I just drank water. Now I'm in pain." 15. Various patients at hospital 16. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Vaca, Medical doctor at San Vicente de Paulo hospital: "It's a bacteria found in sewage. The only way to determine it for sure is with the lab results, but based on the symptoms and on experience of over 20 years, it is water contamination." 17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fernando Navarro, City of Ibarra official: "Even though the water, the drinking water, comes from many sources, it seems the rain water contributed to its mixing with bad waters. It's happening in many areas of the city. This is what makes it worrisome." 18. People standing at hospital pharmacy to get medicine 19. Patient in hospital bed STORYLINE: A child is reported to have died, and hundreds are reportedly ill after drinking water in the Ecuadorean city of Ibarra, health authorities said on Thursday. The child, a two-year-old boy, was reported to have died after suffering complications from contaminated water. According to authorities, nearly 300 people were admitted to local hospitals in the highland city, north of the capital Quito, between October 31st and November 5th complaining of similar symptoms. Most of the affected people were suffering from intestinal pain, as well as nausea, vomiting and fever. According to preliminary studies by the Ecuadorean Ministry of Health, drinking water in the city may have been contaminated by sewage.

Source ABCNEWS VideoSource
Title: Ecuador Contamination - Hundreds of people taken ill because of contaminated water
Date: 11/08/2002
Library: APTN
Tape Number: VSAP354846
Content: TAPE: EF02/0948 IN_TIME: 04:26:51 DURATION: 2:29 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Ibarra, Ecuador - November 7, 2002 SHOTLIST: 1. Various of Ibarra 2. Various water processing facility 3. Wide shot San Vicente de Paulo hospital in Ibarra 4. Mid shot hospital 5. Interior of hospital 6. Young girl getting examined 7. Young patient sleeping 8. Close shot IV 9. Young boy being given medicine 10. Young man getting treatment 11. Various families inside hospital with children 12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Patient: "From drinking water. It was dirty water, we drank it at school and I got sick." 13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Patient: "I drank a glass of water in the morning, by the afternoon I had fever. Very bad, I can't get over it." 14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Patient: "Terrible stomach ache, from drinking water with my medication. I thought, I just drank water. Now I'm in pain." 15. Various patients at hospital 16. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Vaca, Medical doctor at San Vicente de Paulo hospital: "It's a bacteria found in sewage. The only way to determine it for sure is with the lab results, but based on the symptoms and on experience of over 20 years, it is water contamination." 17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fernando Navarro, City of Ibarra official: "Even though the water, the drinking water, comes from many sources, it seems the rain water contributed to its mixing with bad waters. It's happening in many areas of the city. This is what makes it worrisome." 18. People standing at hospital pharmacy to get medicine 19. Patient in hospital bed STORYLINE: A child is reported to have died, and hundreds are reportedly ill after drinking water in the Ecuadorean city of Ibarra, health authorities said on Thursday. The child, a two-year-old boy, was reported to have died after suffering complications from contaminated water. According to authorities, nearly 300 people were admitted to local hospitals in the highland city, north of the capital Quito, between October 31st and November 5th complaining of similar symptoms. Most of the affected people were suffering from intestinal pain, as well as nausea, vomiting and fever. According to preliminary studies by the Ecuadorean Ministry of Health, drinking water in the city may have been contaminated by sewage.
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