SIERRA LEONE / BANBURY EBOLA

On his final days as the Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury visited a series of health facilities recently set up in distant areas of Sierra Leone to combat the deadly outbreak. UNMEER

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:41
• Production Date: 31 December 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION FOR EBOLA EMERGENCY RESPONSE – UNMEER
• Subject Topical: EBOLA
• Geographic Subject: MAURITANIA; SIERRA LEONE
• MAMS Id: 1276426

Description

STORY: SIERRA LEONE / BANBURY EBOLA
TRT: 2.41
SOURCE: UNMEER
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 30 DECEMBER 2014, SANNIQUELLIE, LIBERIA / MAKENI, SIERRA LEONE / MAGBENTI, SIERRA LEONE / MAGBURAKA, SIERRA LEONE / 31 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE

Shotlist

30 DECEMBER 2014, SANNIQUELLIE, LIBERIA

1. Pan left, Anthony Banbury and delegation about to board helicopter on way to Monrovia

30 DECEMBER 2014, MAKENI, SIERRA LEONE

2. Pan right, National Emergency Response Centre (NERC) exterior
3. Various shots, Banbury being briefed by burial management team at NERC

30 DECEMBER 2014, MAGBENTI, SIERRA LEONE

4. Pan right, Banbury and delegation walking through Holding Facility
5. Med shot, health workers wearing PPEs
6. Wide shot, UNMIL peacekeeper
7. Wide shot, Banbury and delegation walking through Holding Facility
8. Close up, Banbury
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Adelaide Bankole, Nurse:
“This place is built here for this Ebola so that when are people be infected in the community, they will come here before it is too late.”
10. Med shot, nurses talking to Banbury and delegation
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Adelaide Bankole, Nurse:
“As soon as we have the patient here we call for the lab to come and take the specimen. And they usually respond to us as quick as possible.”
12. Pan right, sprayer walking inside Community Care Centre (CCC)

30 DECEMBER 2014, MAGBURAKA, SIERRA LEONE

13. Pan left, The Head of UNMEER in Sierra Leone, Amadu Kamara and health worker for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Amadu Kamara, Crisis Manager of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Sierra Leone:
“The epidemiology has moved, and where we are in Tonkolili and Bombali next door, were in fact epicentres. But due to very vigorous intervention it is now stabilizing somewhat and we are very confident with the new move to going to district to district plan, we’ll be able to react with the speed of the epidemiology. So, although, yes, the cases are high, although we still have districts that are of concern, we are confident because we have the capacities now that it will just be a matter of time for us to start reversing the trend.”
15. Med shot, Banbury walking with MSF health workers
16. Med shot, patient who tested negative for Ebola
17. Close up, health workers
18. Various shots, Banbury wearing scrubs touring inside the facility

31 DECEMBER, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE

19. Various shots, Banbury and Kamara meeting with President Ernest Bai Koroma
20. SOUND UP (English) Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone:
“I want on behalf of the government and the people of this country to thank you very much for the great effort that you put into setting up the structures with this limited amount of time and the speed with which you have done it and the impact it has already created in terms of giving us support.”
21. Zoom out, end of meeting

Storyline

On his final days as the Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury visited a series of health facilities recently set up in distant areas of Sierra Leone to combat the deadly outbreak.
Banbury, who ends his term officially today, flew from Liberia to Sierra Leone, first visiting the National Emergency Response Centre (NERC) in Makeni, which among other coordinating functions, is handling safe burials of deceased Ebola patients.
The delegation then visited a Holding Centre and a Community Care Centre (CCC) in Magbenti, where nurse Adelaide Bankole explained how the centre works.
SOUNDBITE (English) Adelaide Bankole, Nurse:
“This place is built here for this Ebola so that when are people be infected in the community, they will come here before it is too late.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Adelaide Bankole, Nurse:
“As soon as we have the patient here we call for the lab to come and take the specimen. And they usually respond to us as quick as possible.”
Banbury and the Head of UNMEER in Sierra Leone, Amadu Kamara, visited an Emergency Treatment Centre (ETC) run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Kamara explained the state of the response in the region.
SOUNDBITE (English) Amadu Kamara, Crisis Manager of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Sierra Leone:
“The epidemiology has moved, and where we are in Tonkolili and Bombali next door, were in fact epicentres. But due to very vigorous intervention it is now stabilizing somewhat and we are very confident with the new move to going to district to district plan, we’ll be able to react with the speed of the epidemiology. So, although, yes, the cases are high, although we still have districts that are of concern, we are confident because we have the capacities now that it will just be a matter of time for us to start reversing the trend.”
Before leaving, Banbury donned scrubs and accompanied doctors inside the facility.
Back in Freetown, Banbury paid a visit to President Ernest Bai Koroma who thanked him for his efforts.

SOUND UP (English) Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone:
“I want on behalf of the government and the people of this country to thank you very much for the great effort that you put into setting up the structures with this limited amount of time and the speed with which you have done it and the impact it has already created in terms of giving us support.”
Banbury will be replaced by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission.