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STORY: LIBERIA / EBOLA TREATMENT
TRT: 2.49
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 OCTOBER 2014, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
1. Pan right, Emergency Treatment Unit (ETU) from above
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Forson, UNICEF Water and Sanitation Specialist:
“This Ebola treatment unit is necessary because the existing ones are already full, they are stretched and there are no spaces for people who are affected. So, this new unit will provide more beds, more room to care for those who are affected.”
3. Close up, UNICEF sticker on water tank
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Forson, UNICEF Water and Sanitation Specialist:
“For each Ebola patient to be fully cared for, we need at least 150 litres of water. That is 10 times more than what a normal Liberian gets right now.”
5. Med shot, construction workers nail a board the reads “patients”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Forson, UNICEF Water and Sanitation Specialist:
“When you use water with chlorine and soap, you are able to wash the contamination, to avoid contaminating others. So we use some of the water to disinfect; we use some of the water for the laundry; we use some of the water for the bath and showering and we use some of them as normal drinking water as well.”
7. Wide shot, construction workers building entrance to the ETU
8. Med shot, construction workers in red-zone of ETU
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Veyrenche, Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) Coordinator for WHO Liberia:
“We had a lot of rocks on the places and we had to break rocks. That was a big challenge as well. And heavy rain – that was most important. And we had a dead body for five days inside the camp, so it was difficult for us to walk. It took us five days to remove it.”
10. Wide shot, construction workers work in tent for future Ebola patients
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Shevin Jacob, Training Coordinator for ETU Centre:
“It’s going to be two units actually with 100 bed capacity for both of them. The unit itself, the first unit, will be staffed by Liberian nationals as well as the team from Cuba, which is comprised of physicians of different sorts, as well as the team from the African Union.”
12. Med shot, construction workers work in tent for future Ebola patients
13. Wide shot, construction workers work in tent for future Ebola patients
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Shevin Jacob, Training Coordinator for ETU Centre:
“With the phase one, now that the trainees would have gone through the participatory training with lectures in small groups and skill stations, then they would have moved to the phase two with the mock ETU, which is this simulated experience of working in an ETU, working in the personal protective equipment, working with simulated patients who are actually Ebola survivors who can really can teach our trainees what the experience of working inside the ETU.”
15. Med shot, construction workers in red-zone of ETU
16. Wide shot ETU from above
A new Emergency Treatment Unit (ETU) is being set up in Monrovia in cooperation by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Liberian government to treat the overflow of Ebola patients.
Michael Forson, a UNICEF Water and Sanitation Specialist, said the ETU “is necessary because the existing ones are already full, they are stretched and there are no spaces for people who are affected. So, this new unit will provide more beds, more room to care for those who are affected.”
Forson said “for each Ebola patient to be fully cared for, we need at least 150 litres of water. That is 10 times more than what a normal Liberian gets right now.”
He said “when you use water with chlorine and soap, you are able to wash the contamination, to avoid contaminating others.”
The water, supplied by UNICEF will be used to disinfect, for laundry, for baths and showering “and we use some of them as normal drinking water as well.”
Jean-Pierre Veyrenche, ETU Coordinator for WHO in Liberia, said there were many challenges in putting together the unit.
He said “we had a lot of rocks on the places and we had to break rocks, that was a big challenge as well. And heavy rain – that was most important. And we had a dead body for five days inside the camp, so it was difficult for us to walk. It took us five days to remove it.”
Shevin Jacob, Training Coordinator for the ETU said “it’s going to be two units actually with 100 bed capacity for both of them. The unit itself, the first unit, will be staffed by Liberian nationals as well as the team from Cuba, which is comprised of physicians of different sorts, as well as the team from the African Union.”
He said “with the phase one, now that the trainees would have gone through the participatory training with lectures in small groups and skill stations, then they would have moved to the phase two with the mock ETU, which is this simulated experience of working in an ETU, working in the personal protective equipment, working with simulated patients who are actually Ebola survivors who can really can teach our trainees what the experience of working inside the ETU.”
The new ETU is located at the old compound of the Liberian Ministry of Defense in Monrovia.
Water is critical to the operation of the ETU. UNICEF designed and set up the entire WASH system for the ETU,
While the ETU water system has been connected to the city's water supply, UNICEF has also set up water tanks to ensure at least two days requirements of water is available, if there is inadequate water from the city system.
