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STORY: WHO / CUBA EBOLA
TRT: 2:09
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 SEPTEMBER 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
RECENT - GENEVA
1. Wide shot, exterior World Health Organization Headquarters
12 SEPTEMBER 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General:
“So far this is the largest offer of doctors, nurses and other specialists like infectious disease control specialists and epidemiologist.”
4. Wide shot, pan right cameramen to dais
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roberto Morales Ojeda, Minister of Public Health of Cuba:
“We will cooperate with a brigade of 165 collaborators, consisting of 62 doctors and 103 nurses. All of them have more than 15 years of professional experience and have worked in other countries facing natural and epidemiological disasters, and also have worked in medical cooperation missions, 23 % of them more than once.”
6. Wide shot, presser
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General:
“We need more doctors and nurses, both coming from outside. We call it foreign medical teams, so you know, Cuba is an example, UK and I know that UK and US and other countries will be making commitment, but to me, the most important piece is to make sure we provide mechanism to bring health care workers from the government to come back to work.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General:
“WHO has launched a Roadmap to stop Ebola in the next six to nine months, so that provided the overarching direction, and the strategy, but the context specific situation needs to be fleshed out at the country level with country leadership but supported by the UN and other partners.”
10. Wide shot, cameramen
11. Close up, sound console tilt up to dais
WHO welcomed the commitment from the Government of Cuba to provide 165 health professionals to support Ebola care in West Africa. The newly announced support includes physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, specialists in infection control, intensive care specialists and social mobilization officers, and will be concentrated in Sierra Leone.
Speaking to reporters today (12 Sept) in Geneva, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said “so far this is the largest offer of doctors, nurses and other specialists like infectious disease control specialists and epidemiologist.”
She explained that Cuba is world-famous for its ability to train outstanding doctors and nurses, adding that it is world-famous for its generosity in solidarity with countries on the route to progress.
Also speaking to reporters, the Cuban Minister of Public Health Roberto Morales Ojeda said “we will cooperate with a brigade of 165 collaborators, consisting of 62 doctors and 103 nurses.”
The health professionals will deploy to Sierra Leone the first week in October and stay for 6 months. They have all worked previously in Africa.
He added “all of them have more than 15 years of professional experience and have worked in other countries facing natural and epidemiological disasters, and also have worked in medical cooperation missions, 23 % of them more than once.”
Margared Chan stressed “we need more doctors and nurses, both coming from outside. We call it foreign medical teams, so you know, Cuba is an example, UK and I know that UK and US and other countries will be making commitment, but to me, the most important piece is to make sure we provide mechanism to bring health care
She noted that WHO has launched a Roadmap to stop Ebola in the next six to nine months, adding in “so that provided the overarching direction, and the strategy, but the context specific situation needs to be fleshed out at the country level with country leadership but supported by the UN and other partners.”
The WHO Ebola response roadmap, released on 28 August, highlights the need for a massively scaled response to support affected countries.
