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STORY: GENEVA / YEMEN HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 01:22
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 JUNE 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
FILE- GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Aerial shot, Palais des Nations
2 JUNE 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen:
“The services that have been in place over the years had deteriorated significantly even before this crisis. Yemen was a very dire situation from a development point of view. There was a protracted crisis there for many years before the actual conflict itself last year. Anybody who was in a vulnerable situation, be it from a nutritional point of view or chronic health issue or whatever it might have been, that’s all been exacerbated significantly by this conflict.”
4. Close up, photographer
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen:
“The hospitals, the schools, the service providers that are normally in place in countries were in bad shape before. The war has all but broken them completely.”
6. Wide shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen:
“Many millions of children are not in school. Hundreds of hospitals don’t function any more for a variety of reasons, one, because the hospital or the school has been destroyed or caught up in the conflict. The supplies of fuel or material for those schools or hospitals are in short supply. Salaries are not being paid for workers in those situations. And populations have moved away from areas because of the conflict as well.”
8. Med shot, journalists
United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen Jamie McGoldrick said Yemen is one of the more invisible crises in the world right now given the dire humanitarian situation people face on a daily basis.
Speaking to reporters today (2 Jun) in Geneva, McGoldrick said the conflict in the country has left hospitals, schools and other essential services almost broken completely. He said services had been deteriorating for years before the conflict broke out last year. He added, “Anybody who was in a vulnerable situation, be it from a nutritional point of view or chronic health issue or whatever it might have been, that’s all been exacerbated significantly by this conflict.”
McGoldrick said the situation in the country has clearly worsened in the past few months despite the difficulty to carry out evaluations and assessments of the humanitarian situation on the ground. He said millions of children are out of school and hundreds of hospitals are not functional. He said workers in conflict areas are not being paid and “populations have moved away from areas because of the conflict as well.”
