GUINEA / EBOLA WORKERS PAYMENTS

After the request of the Guinea’s National Coordination Unit against Ebola, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has made payments to 758 health personnel working in four Ebola treatment units in Guinea, ensuring their life-saving work can continue without any interruption. UNDP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:53
• Production Date: 29 December 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES
• Geographic Subject: GUINEA
• MAMS Id: 1275140

Description

STORY: GUINEA / EBOLA WORKERS PAYMENTS
TRT: 53
SOURCE: UNDP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 28 DECEMBER 2014, MACENTA, GUINEA

Shotlist

1. Packing cash bundles for transport and distribution
2. Moving case of cash
3. Loading case of cash into transport truck
4. Truck departing secure compound
5. Truck on the move
6. Workers unloading cash box from truck
7. Handing cash to workers
8. Truck departing

Storyline

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has made payments to 758 health personnel working in four Ebola treatment units in Guinea, ensuring their life-saving work can continue without any interruption.

UNDP was requested by the Guinea’s National Coordination Unit against Ebola to complete existing salaries with incentive pays for the French Red Cross, Doctors without Borders and Alima, three Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) in Donka, Macenta, Kissidougou and Nzérékoré.

Working with the UN Mission or Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) and the World Bank, UNDP helped the Guinean ministry of health to harmonize payrolls, and ensure the USD 220,000 was deposited in local banks so that health workers could easily retrieve it.

In Macenta, the payment was disbursed in cash because there was no banking facility nearby.

UNDP will assist the Guinean government in creating a platform so that payments made by the government, can continue to be delivered in full and on time.