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STORY: GHANA / EBOLA POWER
TRT: 2.30
SOURCE: UNMEER
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28, 29 OCTOBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA
29 OCTOBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA
1. Wide shot, US Ambassador Samantha Power addressing journalists
2. Med shot, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“There is a need for far more commitments and far more deliveries upon commitments in order to bend the curve – there's a need for more beds, there's a need for more bleach, more cash in order to pay community mobilizers or people who pick up bodies so as to do safe burials – the list goes on and on, and UNMEER and each of the three affected countries are the keepers of those lists and we in the United States and in the broader international community need to be responsive to hose demands and to the specifics of what is on those lists and that it what we are trying to do."
4. Med shot, cameras
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We have the capabilities in all of our countries to end the curve and the question is how do we take supplies hat exist in warehouses around the world and get them to where people are desperate for our help and when doing so will protect not only the people in the affected countries but also people in our own countries. That is the enterprise that we are a part of.”
6. Wide shot, US Ambassador Samantha Power addressing journalists
28 OCTOBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA
7. Various shots, C130 Hercules cargo plane on tarmac
8. Various shots, plane interior
9. Various shots, crew on tarmac
10. Various shots, communications equipment on trailer being loaded onto plane
29 OCTOBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA
11. Various shots, plane taking off
The US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Samantha Power today (29 Oct) said “there is a need for far more commitments and far more deliveries upon commitments in order to bend the curve” in the fight against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Speaking at a UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) warehouse in Accra, Ghana, the US Ambassador said “ there's a need for more beds, there's a need for more bleach, more cash in order to pay community mobilizers or people who pick up bodies so as to do safe burials – the list goes on and on, and UNMEER and each of the three affected countries are the keepers of those lists and we in the United States and in the broader international community need to be responsive to hose demands and to the specifics of what is on those lists and that it what we are trying to do."
Power told reporters that “we have the capabilities in all of our countries to end the curve and the question is how do we take supplies hat exist in warehouses around the world and get them to where people are desperate for our help and when doing so will protect not only the people in the affected countries but also people in our own countries.”
The presser was held jointly with the Head of UNMEER, Tony Banbury. Banbury had said that there's been a very significant mobilization of international personnel, resources and capabilities to work side-by-side with the governments, and that those efforts are starting to pay off.
Meanwhile, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that Guinea is facing growing food insecurity due to the current Ebola crisis. Forest Guinea – the area of Guinea hardest hit by the virus – is experiencing the worst rates of food insecurity in the country.
WHO also noted today that as the Ebola outbreak grows and spreads in Sierra Leone, a small but significant group of people is also growing: the Ebola survivors, and psychological and social services for survivors are gradually emerging in that country.
