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IVORY COAST / EBOLA PREVENTION
STORY: IVORY COAST / EBOLA PREVENTION
TRT: 3.42
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / MALINKÉ
DATELINE: 16 – 17 SEPTEMBER 2014, MAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
1. Wide shot, dirt road and motorcycles
2. Tracking shot, from motorcycle
3. Animation, map of CI
4. Med shot, three men talking
5. Close up, hand ringing a bell
6. Tracking, men entering a house
7. Various shots, Ebola presentation
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Kone Disso, Social Worker:
“We're in a high risk zone, because if we don't get the word out for prevention, we're going to see cases in Cote d’Ivoire.”
9. Various shots, Ebola prevention messages on cell phone
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Kone Disso, Social Worker:
“The population tells us that they are getting SMS's regularly that talk about prevention, and what measures to take to avoid getting the disease.”
11. Various shots, Ebola presentation
12. SOUNDBITE (Malinké): Doumbia Mariam, 49 years old
“Since I was born, I've never even heard of this disease. What is this disease that keeps us from touching our sick?”
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Kone Disso, Social Worker:
“For every illness there are measures to take to prevent it. But with Ebola, it's much more difficult because it touches their culture.”
14. Various shots, Kone doing Ebola presentation to school children
15. Wide shot, hospital entrance
16. Various shots, doctor giving a tour of Ebola ward
17. SOUNDBITE: (French) Dr. Triba Joel, pharmacist and head of Ebola Response Team at the General Hospital of Man:
“We can accommodate four patients. That is if, eventually, there are any cases. And it's well enclosed because each case must be treated in isolation.”
18. Wide shot, Kone talking to group of people
19. SOUNDBITE (French) Kone Disso, Social Worker:
“When I look at my own family, I tell myself this is my motivation – to do everything so that the virus doesn’t come to my country.”
20. Various shots, Kone with his family
The World Health Organisation has marked Ivory Coast and Mali as countries at highest risk of Ebola outbreak spill-over. Ivory Coast’s Tonkpi region is at the border with Liberia, where the disease is widespread.
In region’s capital Man, social worker Kone Disso and his collages go from door to door and educate population on Ebola prevention measures.
For months, Ebola awareness campaigns have been airing on radio and television. Pop songs have been written about the disease, its signs and symptoms, and how to avoid transmission. Ring tones can be heard in markets advising against shaking hands, eating bush meat or touching the sick or dead.
For Mama Doumbia, it’s hard to accept the idea of being unable to help someone who is sick or touch their body once deceased. In a culture where families live together in tight quarters, share meals from the same plate and serve as mothers and fathers to all the children in the village, the changes required to avoid any potential spread of Ebola are enormous.
One of the primary messages on Ebola prevention in Ivory Coast is not about the chance of the outbreak spreading from neighbouring Liberia or Guinea, but rather how to avoid new infection from handling or eating bush meat.
The country is covered in dense, lush forests, home to all sorts of animals that are hunted and eaten to supplement the local diet.
In Man, the General Hospital, with the help of UNICEF, has set up a treatment centre that could accommodate four cases in isolation if the disease were to spread. The hospital has set up an Ebola response team and is responding daily to calls about suspected cases.
Kone and his colleagues have no masks and no gloves. All they carry is a worn poster with the list of signs and symptoms of Ebola that have illustrations along the side – a casket with a corpse, a person shivering with high fever, a doctor well protected.
He said his family is his motivation – to do whatever he can to prevent Ebola from coming o his country.
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