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WHO / UKRAINE HEALTH EMERGENCY
STORY: WHO / UKRAINE HEALTH EMERGENCY
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DATELINE: 18 FEBRUARY 2023, POLTAVA, UKRAINE / FILE
FILE - MAY 2022, UKRAINE
1. Pan right, new ambulances
2. Tracking shot, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and delegation assessing supplies
18 FEBRUARY 2023, POLTAVA, UKRAINE
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO has been in Ukraine from 24th February 2022, more active than ever. We have delivered supplies more than 2800 tonnes across the whole country, including ambulances, medicines, supplies for surgeons, everything that they need.”
FILE - MAY 2022, UKRAINE
4. Various shots, health supplies being prepared
18 FEBRUARY 2023, POLTAVA, UKRAINE
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“In few areas where we have regained access. WHO has been supporting the primary health care to address the chronic diseases and non-communicable diseases, managing diabetes, hypertension, but also supporting the national emergency medical teams, the disaster medicines units to be active in the field to ensure that civilians have support when they are living in their villages.”
FILE – JANUARY 2023, UKRAINE
6. Various shots, Emergency Medical Teams unloading supplies and assessing a patient
18 FEBRUARY 2023, POLTAVA, UKRAINE
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Wartime needs better data. WHO has been scaling up its efforts on health information, the surveys among the population to know the health needs. The surveys and the surveillance in public health to know if we have any public health emergencies coming and also monitoring the attacks on health.”
8. Various shots, WHO staff
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We have almost 200 partners with whom we are working across the whole country. But partners are working more and more in east and south, where the needs are the biggest. And we work through the health cluster as well, partners who are working in development, humanitarian field and with national authorities, civil society organizations.”
10. Various shots, WHO delivering supplies
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are working on health financing and service delivery in particularly strengthening the primary health care. We are working and doing our normative work, which includes public health, especially important also for the EU accession, as well, looking to the normative aspects of tobacco control, better nutrition, everything that we need to be healthier as people.”
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We have continued to ensure COVID response, ensure that the hospitals have oxygen supplies which are now needed to treat COVID, but oxygen is needed also for deliveries, oxygen is needed also for surgeries. So, this whole work has continued and scaled up through 2022.”
FILE - FEBRUARY 2023, KYIV, UKRAINE
13. Various shots, WHO assessing new Oxygen production equipment at a hospital
18 FEBRUARY 2023, POLTAVA, UKRAINE
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It is simultaneous work on response, recovery and also building back stronger health system through reforms.”
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The situation has changed over one year. Now, the health needs are different. So, we need to address the key priority areas like mental health, rehabilitation, addressing the chronic diseases. As we are going to the second year of escalation of war in February 2023, we need to support Ukraine and its health system. We need financial resources to make it happen. And we need solidarity to ensure that the health care workers can deliver their work daily as we are going ahead.”
18 FEBRUARY 2023, POLTAVA, UKRAINE
16. Various shots, ventilators and breathing equipment
The World Health Organization (WHO) is working closely with its offices in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, as well as partners, to rapidly respond to the health emergency triggered by the conflict and to minimize disruptions to the delivery of critical health-care services.
WHO’s Representative in Ukraine Dr Jarno Habicht, provided an update on the health agency’s activity over the last year.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO has been in Ukraine from 24th February 2022, more active than ever. We have delivered supplies more than 2800 tonnes across the whole country, including ambulances, medicines, supplies for surgeons, everything that they need.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“In few areas where we have regained access. WHO has been supporting the primary health care to address the chronic diseases and non-communicable diseases, managing diabetes, hypertension, but also supporting the national emergency medical teams, the disaster medicines units to be active in the field to ensure that civilians have support when they are living in their villages.”
According to the WHO, the right to health and access to services must always be protected, not least during times of crisis. Health workers, emergency services, patients, supplies, transport and facilities, must all be protected from harm.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Wartime needs better data. WHO has been scaling up its efforts on health information, the surveys among the population to know the health needs. The surveys and the surveillance in public health to know if we have any public health emergencies coming and also monitoring the attacks on health.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We have almost 200 partners with whom we are working across the whole country. But partners are working more and more in east and south, where the needs are the biggest. And we work through the health cluster as well, partners who are working in development, humanitarian field and with national authorities, civil society organizations.”
WHO continues to deliver much-needed support on urgent health needs as and where it is required.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are working on health financing and service delivery in particularly strengthening the primary health care. We are working and doing our normative work, which includes public health, especially important also for the EU accession, as well, looking to the normative aspects of tobacco control, better nutrition, everything that we need to be healthier as people.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We have continued to ensure COVID response, ensure that the hospitals have oxygen supplies which are now needed to treat COVID, but oxygen is needed also for deliveries, oxygen is needed also for surgeries. So, this whole work has continued and scaled up through 2022.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It is simultaneous work on response, recovery and also building back stronger health system through reforms.”
The health agency considers imperative to ensure that life-saving medical supplies – including oxygen – reach those who need them.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The situation has changed over one year. Now, the health needs are different. So, we need to address the key priority areas like mental health, rehabilitation, addressing the chronic diseases. As we are going to the second year of escalation of war in February 2023, we need to support Ukraine and its health system. We need financial resources to make it happen. And we need solidarity to ensure that the health care workers can deliver their work daily as we are going ahead.”
Ensuring the health and well-being of all people lies at the core of WHO’s mandate and commitments in all situations, including humanitarian crises and conflicts.
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