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STORY: WORLD BANK / EBOLA
TRT: 2.35
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
LOCATION: 9 OCTOBER 2014, WASHINGTON DC
9 OCTOBER 2014, WASHINGTON DC
1. Med shot, Guinea president
2. Wide shot, video conference of leaders
3. Med shot, Ban Ki Moon and Guinean leader
4. Wide shot, Ban Ki Moon, Jim Kim and others
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President World Bank Group:
“The world Health Organization has just estimated for example that Liberia alone needs 360 medical staff today to treat those infected. One of the sticking points of getting foreign medical staff into these three countries has been the lack of medical evacuation. We heard this morning from the European Commission and from the United States that both of these groups have now committed to medically evacuating health workers and other workers, the responders. This has been a major roadblock and now with the announcement this morning we’re on a much better path to staff the response.”
6. Wide shot, JYK presser
7. Wide shot, conference attendees
8. Wide shot, JYK at podium
9. Med shot, crowd shot, presser conference
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President World Bank Group:
“We are already seeing an economic impact, that the stock value of travel companies, of airlines has already taken a hit. I can tell you that that will continue unless we get the adequate response in place in those three countries. You have to stop these epidemics at the source. Trying to block your borders or isolating those countries somehow is not going to work.”
11. Wide shot, leaders shaking hands with Ban Ki Moon,
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General:
“We have to work together. I call on those who pledged to deliver now and for those who have not pledged yet to do so.”
13. Wide shot, Ebola response meeting
14. Close up, JYK shaking hands with leader
15. Med shot, Ban Ki Moon listening to Guinean president
16. Wide shot, leaders around table
17. Medium African leader talking
18. Close up, Christine Laguarde speaking
19. Wide presser, photo taking
20. Wide shot, Ban Ki Moon with Guinean president.
Leaders of the World Bank Group, United Nations and affected African countries agreed at a critical meeting in Washington to work on speeding up the global response to the Ebola crisis. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said they will reach out to countries around the world to send more health workers to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Leaders meeting in Washington agreed that more aid workers must be sent immediately to fight the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President World Bank Group:
“The World Health Organization has just estimated for example that Liberia alone needs 360 medical staff today to treat those infected. One of the sticking points of getting foreign medical staff into these three countries has been the lack of medical evacuation. We heard this morning from the European Commission and from the United States that both of these groups have now committed to medically evacuating health workers and other workers, the responders. This has been a major roadblock and now with the announcement this morning we’re on a much better path to staff the response.”
The World Bank Group has pledged millions to fight Ebola. Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the economic cost, as well as the human cost, of the crisis will rise if there are further delays.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President World Bank Group:
“We are already seeing an economic impact, that the stock value of travel companies, of airlines has already taken a hit. I can tell you that that will continue unless we get the adequate response in place in those three countries. You have to stop these epidemics at the source. Trying to block your borders or isolating those countries somehow is not going to work.”
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for international contributions.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General:
“We have to work together. I call on those who pledged to deliver now and for those who have not pledged yet to do so.”
The conference of international leaders took place in the advance of the World Bank Group and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington.
