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STORY: WEST AFRICA / BANBURY EBOLA
TRT: 3.14
SOURCE: UNMEER
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 NOVEMBER 2014, GUINEA / 3 NOVEMBER 2014, SIERRA LEONE
2 NOVEMBER 2014, GUINEA
1. Various shots, Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) and Dr. Bruce Aylward from the WHO inspecting WFP run logistics base
2. Various shots, Banbury and Aylward talking to MSF worker at MSF run Ebola treatment unit in Gueckedou
3. Med shot, worker digging trenches for WFP run logistics base
4. Various shots, MSF run Ebola treatment unit in Gueckedou
5. Various shots, departure from airfield in Nzerekone
3 NOVEMBER 2014, SIERRA LEONE
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“I was really pleased to see there in Kenema once again all the elements of a successful strategy to defeat Ebola in place and having an effect – the safe burials, the case management and treatment facilities, the community mobilization – what we have seen in Kenema is a big drop in the case loads.”
7. Med shot, Banbury visiting graveyard for Ebola victims
8. SOUNDUP (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“30, 37, they are all in their 20s and 30s. One 7-year-old, 40, 50, 12, yeah, it’s so sad.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“It was one of the happiest moment that I've had since I started this job more than a month ago – being in a room full of survivors in Kenema. Men, women, kids, older people, most of the people were in their 30s and 40s it looked like, and it's just so inspiring to see that number of survivors, knowing that people can survive getting this disease, especially if they get early treatment. They're disease-free, they have zero Ebola left in them, they're of no risk whatsoever to their families and communities. It's an aspiration now that we have to get more people surviving from this disease by being treated in good facilities early on in the disease.”
10. Various shots, Banbury meeting with Ebola survivors
11. SOUNDUP (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“I have had many meetings, and I have to say this is the happiest one I have been to in all my travels. To be here with all of you survivors. I am so happy to see you here. We will, we absolutely will defeat Ebola in Sierra Leone and in this region.”
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“One of the big problems: we don't have partners to run the care centres. We need NGOs and others to come in and run these facilities. We're putting in place the logistics capabilities, we're building the care centres, and we’re getting the equipment, everything we need to go in them. The patients are there in far too great numbers. What we don't have are the partners to run the facilities and we need them now.”
13. Various shots, Ebola survivors.
The Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury visited Guinea and Sierra Leone, witnessing the challenging dynamics of the Ebola outbreak unfolding in West Africa.
In Guinea, on Sunday (2 Nov), Banbury, together with Dr. Bruce Aylward from the World Health Organization (WHO) inspected a World Food Programme (WFP) run logistics base and a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) run Ebola treatment unit in Gueckedou among other locations.
In Kenema, Sierra Leone, he visited a safe burial site and spoke with Ebola survivors.
Banbury said he was “really pleased to see there in Kenema once again all the elements of a successful strategy to defeat Ebola in place and having an effect – the safe burials, the case management and treatment facilities, the community mobilization – what we have seen in Kenema is a big drop in the case loads.”
He said meeting the survivors “was one of the happiest moments that I've had since I started this job more than a month ago “
Banbury said “men, women, kids, older people, most of the people were in their 30s and 40s it looked like, and it's just so inspiring to see that number of survivors, knowing that people can survive getting this disease, especially if they get early treatment.”
He said it was “an aspiration now that we have to get more people surviving from this disease by being treated in good facilities early on in the disease.”
The Head of UNMEER said “one of the big problems: we don't have partners to run the care centres. We need NGOs and others to come in and run these facilities. We're putting in place the logistics capabilities, we're building the care centres, and we’re getting the equipment, everything we need to go in them. The patients are there in far too great numbers. What we don't have are the partners to run the facilities and we need them now.”
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest in history. Nearly 5,000 people have died since March.
