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STORY: YEMEN / CHOLERA
TRT:2:18
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 24-25 JULY 2017, SANAA, YEMEN
25 JULY 2017, SANAA, YEMEN
1. Various shots, Sanaa skyline
2. Various shots, destroyed building
24 JULY 2017, SANAA, YEMEN
3. Wide shot, exterior of Al Sabeen hospital
4. Med shot, a girl in hospital bed
5. Close up, IV tube
6. Wide shot, hospital tent
25 JULY 2017, SANAA, YEMEN
7. Various shots, heads of WFP, UNICEF and WHO visiting Al Sabeen Hospital
8. Med shot, father feeding a child
9. Close up, child eating from a pack
The heads of three United Nations agencies – UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) –travelled together to Yemen to see for themselves the scale of the current humanitarian crisis and to step up combined efforts to help the people of Yemen.
The UN delegation, headed by WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom, UNICEF’s Executive Director Anthony Lake and WFP’s Executive Director David Beasley visited Tuesday (25 Jul) the treatment centers in Yemen’s capital Sana'a.
Yemen is going through the world’s worst cholera outbreak in the midst of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. In the last three months alone, 400,000 cases of suspected cholera and nearly 1900 associated deaths have been recorded.
Health, water and sanitation facilities have been crippled by more than two years of hostilities, and created the ideal conditions for diseases to spread.
The country is also on the brink of famine, with over 60 percent of the population not knowing where their next meal will come from. Nearly 2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, which makes them more susceptible to cholera.
The three officials called on the international community to redouble its support for the people of Yemen, saying if we fail to do so, the catastrophe we have seen unfolding before our eyes will not only continue to claim lives but will scar future generations and the country for years to come.
