WHO / EBOLA TRAINING

In a bid to check the progress of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization is working with partners and community leaders to set community care centers and train the health workers across  Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three countries worst affected by the virus. WHO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:28
• Production Date: 28 November 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; SANITATION; PUBLIC HEALTH
• MAMS Id: 1254829

Description

STORY: WHO / EBOLA TRAINING
TRT: 2.28
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 27 NOVEMBER 2014, PORT LOKO, SIERRA LEONE / MONROVIA, LIBERIA /RECENT

Shotlist

27 NOVEMBER 2014, PORT LOKO

1. Wide shot, exterior of Ebola Center
2. Various shots, health workers putting PPE on
3. Med shot, trainees exit
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Martin Cormican, Infection, prevention and control expert, World Health Organization:
“So before the community care centres open, there is a period of about three days training, so they get trained in something about the background of the virus and how it makes people sick and how it spreads. And then there is a lot of very practical training about how to do hand hygiene, how to put on and take off the protective equipment is quite complicated and especially the routine for putting it on and especially the routine for taking it off is very particular. So what we do in the training is we get people to stand up and practice putting the suits and practice taking off the suits, while a supervisor from WHO stands there and says this is how you take it off safely.”

10 NOVEMBER 2014, MONROVIA, LIBERIA

5. Various shots, health worker spraying a colleague with solution
6. Various shots, health workers in training

10 NOVEMBER 2014, MONROVIA, LIBERIA

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Sylvie Briand, Director, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO:
“Initially we bring people here to train nationals, when these nationals are trained they become trainers on their own and then they train other people. So this is how we can scale up. And this is a snowball effect I would say, and so there are more and more nationals that have been trained and this is how we will ensure the sustainability of knowledge.”

10 NOVEMBER 2014, MONROVIA, LIBERIA

8. Various shots, workers in training

Storyline

The Port Loko district of Sierra Leone has been heavily affected by the current Ebola outbreak.

World Health Organization (WHO) has been working with health partners and community leaders to set up community care centers for those suffering from Ebola. The centers are designed to take 8-12 patients who are cared for in different tents, depending on the status of their illness.

Before the community care center opens, the team of health workers recruited to care for people in the centre -some of them from the local community- are given thorough training in infection control and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) to avoid being infected with the Ebola virus.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Martin Cormican, Infection, prevention and control expert, World Health Organization:

“So before the community care centres open, there is a period of about three days training, so they get trained in something about the background of the virus and how it makes people sick and how it spreads. And then there is a lot of very practical training about how to do hand hygiene, how to put on and take off the protective equipment is quite complicated and especially the routine for putting it on and especially the routine for taking it off is very particular. So what we do in the training is we get people to stand up and practice putting the suits and practice taking off the suits, while a supervisor from WHO stands there and says this is how you take it off safely.”

The fight against Ebola requires large numbers of trained staff able to work safely in very challenging conditions. Transforming scientific knowledge into skills for personnel through training for doctors, nurses, hygienists, community volunteers and burial teams, is at the heart of the Ebola response.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Sylvie Briand, Director, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO:

“Initially we bring people here to train nationals, when these nationals are trained they become trainers on their own and then they train other people. So this is how we can scale up. And this is a snowball effect I would say, and so there are more and more nationals that have been trained and this is how we will ensure the sustainability of knowledge.”

As of 21 November 15351 cases of Ebola globally have been confirmed with 5459 reported deaths. A total of 588 health-care workers are known to have been infected and 337 of them have died from Ebola.