GUINEA / DONKA HOSPITAL AHMED

On his final day of his first tour through Ebola affected countries,the Head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER), Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed visited the Ebola treatment ward at Donka Hospital, in Guinea’s capital, Conakry. UNMEER

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:02
• Production Date: 13 January 2015
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION FOR EBOLA EMERGENCY RESPONSE – UNMEER
• Subject Topical: HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; SANITATION; PUBLIC HEALTH
• Geographic Subject: GUINEA
• MAMS Id: 1281342

Description

STORY: GUINEA / DONKA HOSPITAL AHMED
TRT: 1.02
SOURCE: UNMEER
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 13 JANUARY 2014, CONAKRY, GUINEA

Shotlist

1. Pan left, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed and delegation arriving at Donka Hospital
2. Tilt down, from Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) sign on tent to Ould Cheikh Ahmed
3. Med shot, medical staff
4. Various shots, Ould Cheikh Ahmed and delegation listening to MSF doctors
5. Close up, Special Envoy on Ebola David Nabarro
6. Med shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed
7. Med shot, Hadja Fatou Sikhé Camara, Director General of Donka National Hospital
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMEER:
“We keep saying that the answer is at the community level. Communities must take charge. The only way to stop the virus is when communities, and here I am speaking about community and religious leaders taking charge. And that all Guineans realize that Ebola is a reality, there is no argument about that. We have the means, and it is through individual behaviour and community behaviour.”
9. Med shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed and Sikhé Camara
10. Wide shot, MSF tent

Storyline

On his final day of his first tour through Ebola affected countries,the Head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER), Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, today (13 Jan) visited the Ebola treatment ward at Donka Hospital, in Guinea’s capital, Conakry.

Together with Special Envoy on Ebola David Nabarro, Ould Cheikh Ahmed met with doctors from Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), who are staffing the treatment centre.

Ould Cheikh Ahmed continued to emphasize the importance of reaching out to communities an community leaders in the fight against the deadly virus.

SOUNDBITE (French) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMEER:
“We keep saying that the answer is at the community level. Communities must take charge. The only way to stop the virus is when communities, and here I am speaking about community and religious leaders taking charge. And that all Guineans realize that Ebola is a reality, there is no argument about that. We have the means, and it is through individual behaviour and community behaviour.”

Guinea has launched a campaign to end Ebola within 60 days.

According to the WHO, as off 7 January, there have been 2,775 confirmed people infected by the Ebola virus in Guinea since the beginning of the outbreak. 1,781 people have died.