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STORY: LIBERIA / LADSOUS EBOLA
TRT: 1.45
SOURCE: UNMIL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 11 SEPTEMBER 2014, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
1. Tilt up, exterior shot of the UNMIL Headquarters
2. Close up, UNMIL Mission Headquarters
3. Med shot, dais of the press room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“I came here in the context of this terrible Ebola epidemic to talk with the government and with our colleagues in UNMIL about how best we can support the necessary and indispensable action against this terrible disease.
5. Cutaway, dais from behind
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“It is true that we, the International Community, have invested a lot over the years in bringing back peace and security to Liberia – and more generally to countries in the region, in West Africa. And it is even truer that we don’t want to; in anyway, make more fragile the results of that patient work.”
7. Wide shot, press room
8. Wide shot, traffic on Tubman Boulevard (main thoroughfare)
9. Wide shot, men outside Ebola isolation center put on protective coats.
10. Med shot, men outside isolation center put on masks.
11. Wide shot, men in full protective gear enter JFK Hospital isolation center
The United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Chief Herve Ladsous said the UN will continue to stand by Liberia and its neighbours as they fight an “unprecedented” Ebola outbreak.
Ladsous is in Liberia to assess how the UN mission there, known by the acronym UNMIL, can further support the fight against Ebola. He held meetings with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as well as the Ministers of Justice and Foreign Affairs.
Liberia, along with the other hard-hit countries, Guinea and Sierra Leone, is facing an Ebola outbreak unprecedented in its scope – more than 4,000 cases have been reported region-wide and over 2,200 people have died – but also for the major blow it has dealt the already-fragile health care systems in West Africa.
According to the UN World Health Organization, among Liberia’s 2,300 cases and 1,200 deaths, some 152 health workers have been infected and 79 have died.
Ladsous stressed that the actual number of people affected may certainly be higher, and each day that passes, the numbers continue to grow. “UNMIL has stood beside the people of Liberia through good and bad times. And now, everyone recognizes this as a particularly bad time.”
He said that all 8,000 people at UNMIL – military, police and civilian staff – would spare no effort to help the people of the country and their neighbours get through this terrible crisis.
