HAITIAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION <hrdf.

org>
Aldy Castor, M.D., President
United States: 854 Marina Drive, Weston, Florida 33327
Ph 954.659.7953. 954.873.0064, fax 954.659.7957, aldyc@att.net
Haiti: 17, 2me ruelle Wilson, Pacot, Port-au-Prince, ph 509.3.461.5225
25, Rue Stnlo Vincent, Aquin
The Haitian Resource Development Foundation (HRDF), a 501 (c ) 3 non-profit organization, with United States Federal
Tax I.D. No. 72-1074482, was established in 1987 in the State of Louisiana. This Foundation is also recognized by the
government of Haiti as a Non-Governmental Organization (N.G.O.) under the RE: No. MPCEFP/1993/94/17 and registered
in the archives of Le Ministre de la Planification et la Coopration Externe under the number B-0167. HRDFs mission
is to initiate or support projects whose goals are to develop Haitis resources and focuses its effort on outcome-based
programs in the fields of health care, education, scientific research, arts and culture and economy.

OCTOBER 16, 2016

ANNOTATED HURRICANE DAMAGE AND LOSS ASSESSMENT
SELECTED MUNICIPAL AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES
CITY OF AQUIN, SOUTH DEPARTMENT, HAITI
The following pages document damages and losses attributable to Hurricane Matthew
that passed over Haiti Tuesday October 4, and additional urgencies from pre-existing
needs especially at Aquin Community Hospital.
This assessment was initiated by the Haitian Resource Development Foundation
[HRDF], a nongovernmental organization based in Weston, Florida and Aquin, Haiti with
significant working assets and relationships including with the Office of the Mayor, the
Aquin Community Hospital, the volunteer Community Emergency Response Team
[CERT] and the Aquin Rotary Club.
In July, HRDF with the support of the Humanitarian Assistance Program of the U.S.
Southern Command [Southcom] and the participation of sister cities New Iberia,
Louisiana and Delray Beach, Florida, had just conducted three days of disaster
preparedness and response presentations and exercises intended to reduce the
vulnerability of this seacoast city and commune of approximately one hundred
thousand. Despite a modicum of preparedness and renewed vigilance, Aquin still
sustained considerable damage from the hurricane, both from the storm itself moving
inland from the south, and then from rain floodwaters coursing down the mountainsides
north and above the city. Aquin, like dozens of other Haitian cities, occupying a narrow
coastal plain that concentrates the population between the sea and a hard place.
Matthew was the first serious hurricane over Haiti in approximately ten years, but
climate change scientists forecast for more frequent and larger magnitude storms in
this part of the world. HRDF will continue advocating for 1) preparedness, 2) response
and 3) mitigation througout Haiti. Donors sympathetic to and concerned about the
plight of Haitians are encouraged to direct their generosity, resources and expertise to
those three priorities. Thank you. Aldy Castor, President, Haitian Resource
Development Foundation <hrdf.org> aldyc@att.net 954.659.7953

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/04/americas/hurricane-matthew/

In this satellite image captured at 4:20 p.m. on Monday, Hurricane Matthew is seen moving across the
Caribbean Sea toward the islands of Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba.

Hurricane winds blow against palm trees in Port-au-Prince on Monday. Hurricane Matthew is the
strongest storm to hit Haiti since 1964 and the first hurricane to make landfall in the country since the
devastating earthquake in 2010.

AQUIN

AQUIN CITY AND COMMUNE

Aquin, Haiti is an historic, medium-sized

Caribbean coastal city and large commune
of approx. 100,000 people through which
National Route 2 passes from Miragone
to Les Cayes.
Aquin encompasses a navigable bay,
several miles of shoreline, a narrow
coastal plain, extensive foothills and steep
hillsides that lead into an interior mountain
range.
Aquin is chronically prone to loss of life,
property, landscape and community
assets from the effects of severe weather,
earthquakes, epidemics, climate change,
floods, hurricanes, deforestation, erosion,
construction, dangerous settlement
patterns and vehicular traffic.
Aquin residents are receptive to improved
preparedness, safety and response, but
lack the money and management systems.
Like many other vulnerable Haitian
communities, they may have the will, but
not the way.

MAPS TO APPROXIMATE SCALE

SHOWING THE RELATIVE
POSITIONS AND SIZES OF

AQUIN IN THE SOUTHERN

PENINSULA

AQUIN COMMUNE

CITY OF AQUIN

Aldy
Hotel

HRDFs Athletics Field

and Vo-tech School

Aquin
Community
Hospital

HRDFs
Office

Mayors
Office
Mayors Office

Detailed map of Aquin City indicating facilities addressed in this damage and loss assessment

MAYORS PRELIMINARY REPORT:

M.A: Tableau relatif aux dgts causs par l'Ouragan Matthew Aquin
Dgats (Damage)

Quantits estimatifs
(estimated quantities)

Perte en vie humaine (Dead)

Personnes portes disparues (Misssing)
Personnes blesses (Hurt)
Maisons dtruites (Homes destroyed)
Maisons endommages (Damage homes)
Perte en btails (Lost in cattle)
Dvastations des champs
(Field devestations)
Matriels de pche (Fishing materials)
Tronons de routes endommags
(Sections of roads damaged)

8
8
3575
12456
Indnombrables (Uncountable)
Indnombrables (Uncountable)
3740
Tout (All)
Error! Bookmark not defined.

Angle des Rues Stnio Vincent et in. Jacques Dessalines (509) 3875 5281/ 3601 5209/
36863389/3754 3963
E-mail : mairiedaquin@yahoo.fr

POST-HURRICANE, FLOODED DOWNTOWN AQUIN LOOKING NORTH TO THE MOUNTAINS

WATERFRONT DAMAGE FISHERMENS VILLAGE

WATERFRONT DAMAGE

FISHERMANS BOAT DAMAGE

AQUIN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

The community hospital is part of the rural network of health facilities under the Haitian
Ministry of Public Health and Population [MSPP]. It is a relatively small but comprehensive
hospital serving the city and commune of Aquin, population, approx. 100,000. There are suites
for emergencies, surgery, maternity and pediatric care, intensive care, x-rays and sonograms,
vaccinations and laboratory. The hospital was a recent grantee of the Kellogg Foundation to
improve and computerize administration and recordkeeping. HRDF has proposed an additional
major expansion for maternal and infants health that will include education and training
outreach to traditional matrones - both women and men - who still deliver the majority of
babies in Haitis countryside.
Scenes indicative of Aquin Community Hospital before Hurricane Matthew:

Suddenly in early September, Aquin Community Hospital experienced an electrical failure that
resulted in a major fire in the operating room. Most of the medical and surgical equipment
were damaged. Typically, six to eight surgical procedures are performed daily in the
operating room on the most vulnerable patients from all over Haiti. Since the fire, however, no
surgical procedures, including cesarean sections, have been performed. The impact is all the
more serious since the hurricane. The equipment and supplies must be quickly replaced.
The Hospital is urgently in great need of operating room equipment, such as an anesthesia
machine, an electrocardiogram machine, an operating table and especially an operating
surgical light so that surgeries and deliveries can begin again as soon as possible. Total
replacement cost is approx. $25,000.

There are also immediate shortages of equipment and supplies and needs to replace the following:
ambubag pediatric with pop-off valve
mask - neonatal (infant size small & large)
endotracheal tubes 2.5
endotracheal tubes3.0
endotracheal tubes 3.5
infant laryngoscope (w/bulb and batteries)
laryngoscope blades 00,0,1
infant stethoscope
mucous extractor bulbs
oxygen regulator (w/ 25 oxygen tubing)
radiant warmer
suction unit with suction catheter
table for equipment
cabinet
Suction Unit
Doctors stool

Assistants stool
Sterilizer
Dental control unit
Dental high speed hand piece
Dental slow speed hand piece
X-ray machine
X-ray viewing box
Film processor
Curing light
Spare light bulbs
Amalgamator
Bead sterilizer
supply box
Saliva rejecter
Instruments (scalers, polishers, forceps)

HRDFS ATHLETIC FIELD, VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOL AND PERMITER SECURITY WALL

The aerial view below taken in 2015 looks eastward. In the center is the significant recreational, educational and
distance learning facilities of Haitian Resource Development Foundation. Within a 2000-foot, high masonry wall are a
regulation-size soccer field and spectators bleachers, a masonry athletic equipment building, masonry vo-tech
classroom building and large metal-sheathed assembly building. Haitian National Route 2 runs east-west to the right
of the property. Downtown Aquin is to the right of the highway, leading to the oceanfront that supports a traditional
fishing community. Aldy Hotel is circled at upper-left and Aquin Community Hospital is circled at center-right.

REPRESENTATIVE PHOTOS OF HRDF PROPERTY USE BEFORE THE HURRICANE

Heavily-attended youth and adult soccer games and tournaments. Notice perimeter wall in background.

Frequent use of the athletics field for emergency response education and training.

HRDFs large public assembly building is used for public events. Pictured here, Certification Day for matrones who deliver Haitian
babies [left] and "Opening Day" for childrens computer education program [right]. Both activities benefit from support of Kellogg Foundation.

HRDFs modern classrooms have made it possible for hundreds of Aquin youths to learn to use computers.

SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO HRDFS FACILITIES FROM HURRICANE MATTHEW OCTOBER 2016

1. EXTENSIVE COLLAPSE OF PERIMETER SECURITY WALL, LOSS OF ELECTRIC POLES, SPECTATOR STANDS

2. ROOFING AND SHEATHING DAMAGE TO LARGE PUBLIC ASSEMBLY BUILDING

3. CATASTROPHIC LOSS OF ALL ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT, STOLEN AFTER COLLAPSE OF PERMITER WALL

Pictured here, HRDFs athletic equipment building that was pilfered by thieves when the hurricane collapsed the security
wall. EFA stands for Ecole Football dAquin which is HRDFs long-running program for Haitian youths. ASA stands
for Association Sportif dAquin which is the adults counterpart to the youth program. All equipment and supplies were
lost due to the hurricane. The building itself was not damaged.

ALDY HOTEL, AQUIN'S PRINCIPAL HOSPITALITY DESTINATION

Aldy Hotel, a principal destination for tourists visiting the "Greater South,"on National Route 2, approx. three hours' drive from Port-au-Prince.

Aldy Hotel also has long-served as conference center for community education and technical meetings and conferences.

HURRICANE DAMAGE TO ALDY HOTEL

The hotel suffered significant damage to signage, terracing, retainer wall, roofing, exterior windows and doors.
This has required the closing of some rooms and the likely interruption of reservations for the remainder of the year.

Stormwater damage to terracing and retaining wall.

Damage to hotel's water supply tank.

Hurricane wind damage and loss of steel roofing and exterior windows and frames.

Additional loss of steel roofing

BILAN PARTIEL DES TABLISSEMENTS TOURISTIQUES [SPECIFIC LOSSES TO STRUCTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE]
DTRUITS

ENDOMMAG

INTACT

MOINS DE 50%

50%

PLUS DE 50%

CONSTRUCTION

Structure

Cuisine : 30

(CHAMBRES | LOBBY

principale :

mtres carrs de

CUISINE BAR ETC)

160 mtres de

toit mtallique

toit

Restaurant : 20

mtallique,

mtres carrs de

14 Portes - 24

toit mtallique

fentres
INFRASTRUCTURE

Murs de

Systme de

(ENERGIE, EAU)

contention:

collecte deau

40 mtres

partir du toit

carrs

mtallique : 162
mtres - dtruits
100%
Tank deau de
1000 gallons
dtruits 100%

PLAGE (TRANSAT,
MOBILIER)
MARINA
PISCINE
STRUCTURES ( DECK,

Lampadaires

LAMPADAIRE

extrieures

AUTRES (SPCIFIEZ)