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STORY: GUINEA / EBOLA AHMED CONDE
TRT: 1.43
SOURCE: UNMEER
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 JANUARY 2014, CONAKRY, GUINEA
1. Wide shot, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed descending from airplane
2. Wide shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed and delegation outside Presidential Palace
3. Close up, Special Envoy on Ebola David Nabarro
4. Med shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed and delegation outside Presidential Palace
5. Wide shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed shaking hands with President Alpha Condé
6. Med shot, Condé shaking hands with Nabarro and WHO Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward
7. Med shot, Condé and Ould Cheikh Ahmed
8. Close up, Condé
9. Med shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed
10. Med shot, delegation
11. Pan left, from Ould Cheikh Ahmed to Condé
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMEER:
“This crisis had caused a lot of damage to the economy. It is a country that was experiencing robust growth but has suffered. It is the intention of everyone to do everything so that the crisis ends as soon as possible.”
13. Pan right, Nabarro and Condé
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMEER:
“We are going to campaign together with the government to ensure that all cases are detected, isolated, and that the chains of contamination become clearer to us. It is at the community level that we can produce real change.”
15. Wide shot, Ould Cheikh Ahmed at the podium
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Alpha Condé, President of Guinea:
“Everyone must mobilize so that we don’t hide the sick and have access to everyone, and that all cases are reported. Because we cannot cure Ebola if we sill have a problem of resistance.”
17. Close up, camera
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Alpha Condé, President of Guinea:
“The cure for Ebola starts with us.”
19. Close up, cameras
The Head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER). Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmedtravelled , today (12 Jan) to Guinea where he met with President Alpha Condé.
Continuing his first tour of the region, Ould Cheikh Ahmed, together with Special Envoy on Ebola David Nabarro and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director General Bruce Ayward, discussed the current state of the response.
After their meeting, Ahmed and Condé spoke to the press.
The Special Representative pointed out the damage that the Ebola crisis has inflicted on the Guinean economy.
He said “this crisis had caused a lot of damage to the economy. It is a country that was experiencing robust growth but has suffered. It is the intention of everyone to do everything so that the crisis ends as soon as possible.”
Ahmed stressed the importance of the government taking the lead in the response and of working at the community level to find and treat every case.
President Condé recognized that there is still a problem of community resistance.
He said “everyone must mobilize so that we don’t hide the sick and have access to everyone, and that all cases are reported. Because we cannot cure Ebola if we sill have a problem of resistance.”
Condé stressed that only with through community cooperation Ebola can be defeated.
Guinea has launched a campaign to end Ebola within 60 days.
According to the WHO, as off 7 January, there have been 2,775 confirmed people infected by the Ebola virus in Guinea since the beginning of the outbreak. 1,781 people have died.
