SIERRA LEONE / EBOLA NABARRO AYLWARD

Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the Head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER) today (8 Jan) met with Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma in his continuing effort to coordinate UN activities in the fight against the disease. UNMEER

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:39
• Production Date: 8 January 2015
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO; UNITED NATIONS MISSION FOR EBOLA EMERGENCY RESPONSE – UNMEER
• Subject Topical: EBOLA
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA; AFRICA; AFRICA; GUINEA; LIBERIA; SIERRA LEONE
• MAMS Id: 1279543

Description

STORY: SIERRA LEONE / EBOLA NABARRO AYLWARD
TRT: 2.39
SOURCE: UNMEER
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 8 JANUARY 2014, FREETOWN / PORT LOKO, SIERRA LEONE

Shotlist

8 JANUARY 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE

Wide shot, exterior State House
Wide shot, President Ernest Bai Koroma arrives at meeting with Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed and delegation
3. Pan right, WHO Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward, Special Envoy on Ebola David Nabarro and UNMEER Sierra Leone Ebola Crisis Manager Amadou Kamara
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone:
“It is not going to be over until it is over and have zero new infections. Because one case has caused all of these problems. We should not allow to have one case anywhere.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMEER:
“We will not sort out this crisis if we still have crisis in Guinea, if we still have crisis in Liberia.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Aylward, WHO Assistant Director General:
“This virus can only go from a contact to a contact to a contact. When this virus ends, I think that if you go to the communities, they control when it ends, not the virus. You know there’s been this sense that we are being hunted, and I think that know as you go out, this is the first time that you will go out there when the capacity is in place to hunt the virus, instead of being hunted by the virus.”
7. Med shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed and Bai Koroma

8 JANUARY 2014, FREETOWN / PORT LOKO, SIERRA LEONE

8. Wide shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed descending from helicopter
9. Pan right, from Ebola Champions poster to soldier holding thermometer
10. Various shots, Ould Cheikh Ahmed receiving briefing from British troops at a National Ebola Response Centre
11. Wide shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed and delegation visiting Ebola Treatment Centre
12. Various shots, Ould Cheikh Ahmed talking to doctors
13. Med shot, boots drying out
14. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Special Envoy on Ebola:
“Coming now to the region for my sixth time, I am so delighted with I am seeing. There are facilities now for treating people. There are teams available to bury in a safe and dignified way those who were unfortunately not able to survive. There are centres where the whole response is being coordinated at the district level. It’s fantastic. But what matters, all the time it’s the communities are able to understand about this disease.”
15. Various shots, delegation visiting treatment unit

Storyline

Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the Head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER) today (8 Jan) met with Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma in his continuing effort to coordinate UN activities in the fight against the disease.
President Bai Koroma said that the fight will not be over until there are zero cases left.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone:
“It is not going to be over until it is over and have zero new infections. Because one case has caused all of these problems. We should not allow to have on case anywhere.”

Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who is travelling with Special Envoy on Ebola David Nabarro and World Health Organization (WHO) Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward, highlighted the regional nature of the outbreak.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMEER:
“We will not sort out this crisis if we still have crisis in Guinea, if we still have crisis in Liberia.”

Aylward said that it is up to the communities to stop the spread of the virus.

SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Aylward, WHO Assistant Director General:
“This virus can only go from a contact to a contact to a contact. When this virus ends, I think that if you go to the communities, they control when it ends, not the virus. You know there’s been this sense that we are being hunted, and I think that know as you go out, this is the first time that you will go out there when the capacity is in place to hunt the virus, instead of being hunted by the virus.”

The delegation then visited a new Ebola Treatment Centre run by the GOAL Global NGO.

Nabarro expressed satisfaction with the improvements in the level of the response in Sierra Leone.

According to the WHO, as off January 4th, there have been 20,747 people infected by the Ebola virus since the beginning of the outbreak. 8,235 people have died.