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STORY: YEMEN / CHOLERA
TRT: 02:43
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 MAY - 01 JUNE 2017, SANA’A YEMEN
30 MAY 2017, SANA’A YEMEN
1. Wide shots, UNICEF team and Alsabeen hospital staff walking outside
2. Wide shot, UNICEF tents set up in hospital’s back yard to accommodate cholera patients
3. Med shot, UNICEF team and hospital staff entering tent
4. Med shot, Cappelaere checking on a child
5. Med shot, child being treated from cholera
6. Med shot, Cappelaere checking on a child
7. Close up, a child being treated from cholera
8. Med shot, a young girl being treated from cholera
9. Close up, medication on shelf
10. Wide shot, Cappelaere speaking to families
01 JUNE 2017, SANA’A YEMEN
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Geert Cappelaere, Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“Every day we have at least five to ten thousand newly reported cases throughout the country. That's unprecedented - that requires also an unprecedented massive response from the authorities here, but also from the international community.”
30 MAY 2017, DELA’ HAMDAN DISTRICT, YEMEN
12. Med shot, UNICEF staff member briefing Cappelaere
13. Close up, UNICEF staff member briefing Cappelaere
14. Wide shot, entrance to 22 May Hospital
15. Med shot, the reception area of the Hospital
16. Various shots, premature babies inside incubators
17. Various shots, Hospital staff briefing Cappelaere in incubators section
18. Med shot, doctor checking premature child
19. Close up, doctor checking premature child
20. Close up, premature infant inside incubator
21. Close up, doctor is feeding premature child inside incubator
22. Various shots, patients in hospital beds
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said the cholera outbreak in Yemen continues to spread at an alarming rate with over 124,000 cases recorded, almost half of whom are children.
UNICEF said at least 923 people have died from the disease since late April with children accounting for one quarter of the deaths. The Fund said hospitals and treatment centres were struggling to cope with the large number of patients coming in from across the country as medicines and intravenous fluids are quickly running out.
In a recent visit to the war-torn country, UNICEF’s Middle East Director Geert Cappelaere called on authorities to make the fight against cholera and the challenges faced by people every day a top priority. He said the crisis was hitting the Yemenis, especially children, very hard and more supplies were needed. Cappelaere said five to ten thousand cases were being reported daily throughout the country which was “unprecedented” and required “an unprecedented massive response from the authorities here, but also from the international community.”
Cappelaere said cholera does not know any borders and was spreading across the front lines. He called on parties to stop fighting to allow humanitarian workers to respond to the outbreak which was had affected 19 out the country’s 21 governorates. Still, the Regional Director said there were hopeful signs. He noted that in areas that have been reached, the number of cases was no longer increasing as much as those areas where UNICEF has not been able to respond at scale.