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STORY: UN / YEMEN UPDATE
TRT: 0:51
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 MAY 2017, NEW YORK CITY
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
10 MAY 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson, United Nations:
“The UN and partners are taking immediate steps to assist the Ministry of Health contain the outbreak of cholera. This includes re-opening 26 diarrheal treatment centers across 15 governorates and establishing six more of those centres in the most affected areas, as well as sending medicines and supplies and strengthening the surveillance system. It is vital that pledges made by Donors in last month’s pledging conference are distributed immediately so that the UN and partners can continue essential and life-saving operations and respond to the urgent needs of the Yemeni people.”
5. Wide shot, press room
United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the UN and its partners were taking “immediate steps” to contain a cholera outbreak in Yemen with confirmed 14 cases of the infection.
Citing the Ministry of Health, Dujarric told reporters today (10 May) the 14 cases were in several governorates including Amanat Al Asimah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Al Dhale and Sana’a.
Dujarric reported that the UN and its partners would be re-opening 26 diarrheal treatment centres across 15 governorates and establishing six more of those centres in the most affected areas, as well as “sending medicines and supplies and strengthening the surveillance system.”
The spokesperson said it was “vital that pledges made by Donors in last month’s pledging conference are distributed immediately” to continue “essential and life-saving” operations and respond to the urgent needs of the Yemeni people.
Meanwhile, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, arrived today to attend a World Bank meeting on Yemen and meet with Yemeni officials and regional authorities as part of a new regional tour. He is also expected to brief the Security Council in the situation in the country by the end of the month.
