(29 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
Santa Cruz
1. Wide of children's hospital "Ortis Suarez"
2. Tracking shot of woman entering hospital carrying small child
3. Various of women with their sick babies inside hospital
4. Close up of baby, his temperature being taken under the arm
5. Various of woman sick with dengue fever lying on bed
6. Close up intravenous drip
7. Little girl suffering from dengue fever
8. People on beds suffering from dengue fever, in special room to treat them
9. Pull out from poster on door explaining how to prevent dengue fever and how to treat it, door opens
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Varagas, doctor at Ortis Suarez Hospital:
"Sadly this is already an epidemic and it's overwhelming the hospitals and health centres because people are going to the health centres when they are already in a very bad state."
La Paz
11. Wide of interview with chief of Epidemiology of the Health Ministry, Juan Carlos Arraya
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Carlos Arraya, Chief of Epidemiology at the Bolivian Health Ministry:
"At a national level, we know we have 5,071 cases but we have unofficial reports that we have already exceeded 6,000 cases. Also at national level we have more than 20 cases of hemorrhagic dengue and four cases of death due to hemorrhagic dengue."
13. Close up of pamphlet showing life cycle of mosquito that causes dengue fever
14. Tray containing mosquitoes causing dengue
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Carlos Arraya, Chief of Epidemiology at the Bolivian Health Ministry:
"Yes, we declared the health alert on January 12th but now we are declaring a state of health emergency in that whole region (the Santa Cruz department)."
Santa Cruz
16. Various of Health Ministry workers fumigating gardens against mosquitoes
STORYLINE
Bolivian authorities announced on Thursday a state of health emergency in the department of Santa Cruz due to a serious outbreak of dengue fever, with more than five-thousand cases officially confirmed.
Last week the Bolivian Health Ministry declared a health alert after the first outbreaks were detected and mobilised 18-thousand soldiers for fumigation tasks in the affected areas.
Juan Carlos Arraya, Chief of Epidemiology of the Health Ministry, on Wednesday said that although the official number of cases stood at 5,071 unofficial reports estimates the actual figure could exceed six-thousand cases.
Arraya said that according to the latest official reports, the number of deaths resulting from hemorrhagic dengue - the most lethal version of the epidemic - stood at four people.
The eastern tropical lands of Bolivia, specially in the department of Santa Cruz, are the most affected by the dengue fever outbreak due to the early arrival of the rainy season this year, health officials said.
Eighty percent of the cases have been reported in the Santa Cruz department, where hospitals are over crowded with sick people.
According to doctors, more than 100 people a day arrive to the hospital fearing they have been infected with the disease.
Dengue is caused by bites from the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which deposits its larvas in stagnant waters.
If the dengue fever is not treated in time it can develop into a hemorrhagic dengue and cause death.

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