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STORY: UN / EBOLA WRAP
TRT: 4.03
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV/EU-UNICEF/UNDP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – UNIFEED-UNTV
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
14 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“I am grateful for the commitments by member states of their civilian and military personnel, of material, and of money. But I am deeply –deeply- worried that all of this combined is not nearly enough.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“We either stop ebola now or we face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan. To illustrate this challenge we can look at the expected number of new ebola infections per week at the 60 days mark, December 1. My colleague –Dr. Bruce Aylward of WHO and UNMEER- stated today that we can expect a new case load of approximately 10,000 people per week by 1 December.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“The penalty for delay is enormous. The penalty for failure is inconceivable and unacceptable. We must act now. We must act together. We must defeat ebola. And we must do it fast.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“I would like to add just a few words regarding the situation in Liberia on the human consequences of all this. When I visited Monrovia a month ago, I was struck by the fact that people don’t touch each other any more. People don’t shake hands anymore. What one does is waves at one another at a distance at best; and this, in a society which is a complex and complicated society which has suffered and remains divided, but there is an expression of care of love. It’s a tactile society. People touch each other. People kiss each other. None of this is left and this I believe is something that should draw our attention because the very last rite when someone dies is a major part of this society and here the circumstances dictate that even when one lost someone we can’t express one’s love or one’s affection or be close to them and this is something which I believe is very painful.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“Let me Madame President to turn to UNMIL, until now, no United Nations staff had been affected and now despite all our vigilance at the end of September we first had a national member, a Liberian member who died most likely of ebola –we can never be entirely sure- and last night, as you know - an international staff member of UNMIL who died in Germany after having been diagnosed and then evacuated to Europe on October 8th. We now have other 39 other staff members of UNMIL, half of the military personnel which have been quarantined and we follow closely.”
EU-UNICEF – 10 OCTOBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
13. Various shots, Ebola supplies being unloaded from airplane
14. Wide shot, Cargo being driven away
UNDP – 10 – 11 OCTOBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
15. Med shot, officials entering Ebola Emergency Operation Center in Freetown
16. Close up, hands over response map
17. Various shots, UNDP volunteers meeting and working in the Mabella slum
18. Various shots, UNDP handwashing point in Mabella
19. Various shots, slum
The head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) Anthony Banburry told the Council that he is grateful for the commitments by member states of their civilian and military personnel, of material, and of money; adding in that he is “deeply –deeply- worried that all of this combined is not nearly enough.”
Speaking today (14 Oct) to the members of the Security Council, Banburry also said “we either stop ebola now or we face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan.”
He added “to illustrate this challenge we can look at the expected number of new ebola infections per week at the 60 days mark, December 1. My colleague –Dr. Bruce Aylward of WHO and UNMEER- stated today that we can expect a new case load of approximately 10,000 people per week by 1 December.”
Banburry emphasized “the penalty for delay is enormous. The penalty for failure is inconceivable and unacceptable. We must act now. We must act together. We must defeat ebola. And we must do it fast.”
Also speaking to the Security UN body, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous noted that when he visited Liberian capital Monrovia a month ago, he was struck by the fact that people didn’t touch each other any more.
He said “people don’t shake hands anymore. What one does is waves at one another at a distance at best; and this, in a society which is a complex and complicated society which has suffered and remains divided, but there is an expression of care of love. It’s a tactile society. People touch each other. People kiss each other. None of this is left and this I believe is something that should draw our attention because the very last rite when someone dies is a major part of this society and here the circumstances dictate that even when one lost someone we can’t express one’s love or one’s affection or be close to them and this is something which I believe is very painful.”
Commenting on the situation at the UN Mission in Liberia, Ladsous said “until now, no United Nations staff had been affected and now despite all our vigilance at the end of September we first had a national member, a Liberian member who died most likely of ebola –we can never be entirely sure- and last night, as you know - an international staff member of UNMIL who died in Germany after having been diagnosed and then evacuated to Europe on October 8th. We now have other 39 other staff members of UNMIL, half of the military personnel which have been quarantined and we follow closely.”
Meanwhile, the UN has stepped up its efforts on the humanitarian front to combat Ebola in the three effected countries.
The first UNICEF- EU (European Union) airlift carrying nearly 100 metric tons of essential medical supplies left Amsterdam last Friday en route to Sierra Leone. Similar flights are planned for Liberia and Guinea, part of a €1 million donation from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO).
To date, UNICEF has flown in more than 912 metric tons of supplies to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in what is now the largest airlift operation of Ebola supplies.
And the UN Development Programme (UNDP) is re-orienting its country programme in Sierra Leone to help tackle the socioeconomic crisis caused by the Ebola epidemic.
A visit last week by agency officials stressed the need to mobilize more resources to support more treatment facilities like this one, the Lakka centre run by an NGO called Emergency which is managing a team of over 100 medical staff, doctors and nurses.
In the Mabella slums, UNDP-sponsored volunteers are leading education and outreach efforts.
The Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone has disrupted the production and trade in foodstuffs and other goods, shut down businesses and made it impossible for thousands of women and men to obtain health care.
The World Health Organization announced today that the total number of cases has reached 8,914 with 4,447 deaths.