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00:00 Inside the Medepol Hospital in Noumea there is an eerie quiet.
00:05 Patients with chronic conditions are not coming in or are no longer being treated.
00:10 Staff who have not been relieved for days say the supplies are thin
00:14 and that the roadblocks outside have inhibited access, imperiling patients.
00:19 "Leave it to the ambulance service, leave it to the hospital staff who have their badges.
00:23 It's not to go shopping, it's to come to work at the Medepol.
00:27 It's to come and help the population."
00:29 Supply problems are concerning residents throughout New Caledonia.
00:33 Seen here, they await long queues and empty supermarket shelves.
00:37 Around 100 containers are waiting at the port.
00:40 The problem is transporting them safely.
00:43 "There is no shortage of stock.
00:46 There are storage areas for food and pharmaceutical products.
00:49 For me, the most urgent priority is to establish a functioning food system
00:54 that meets the daily needs of the population as well as their health needs."
00:59 On Thursday, France deployed more than a thousand extra security forces to the archipelago
01:08 after declaring it a state of emergency.
01:11 Authorities say the pro-independence movement known as the CCAT
01:15 is responsible for most of the violence in recent days.
01:18 In return, they blame the state.
01:22 "In the face of the state's stubborn determination to impose constitutional change,
01:27 we denounce the state's irresponsibility and hold it responsible for the loss of human life,
01:33 atrocities and devastation of the country's economic fabric."
01:38 Critics of the proposed new voting laws argue that it will further marginalise the Indigenous Kanak people.
01:44 Their leaders are calling for calm, saying they regret the loss of life,
01:49 life but they stand against the laws.