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STORY: GENEVA / ROHINGYA CHILDREN MONSOON
TRT: 02:09
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 01 MAY 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot exterior Palais des Nations
01 MAY 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“During the monsoon season, which lasts from June to September, the overall health and well-being of Rohingya refugee children is affected. Increased risk of infectious disease, poor water and sanitation hygiene, and injury impact children whose immune systems are already weakened by acute malnutrition.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“We estimate that more than 100,000 people, including approximately 55,000 children, are at risk due to floods and landslides. It’s possible that this figure could go up to 200,000 people depending on the intensity of rains.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“Because of the monsoon, children are at risk of being cut off from life-saving medical services. In case of floodings, the number of people suffering from acute watery diarrhoea is likely to increase, and UNICEF and partners are readying to support an estimated 10,000 people, more than half of which are children, with treatment for acute watery diarrhoea over the next three months. We are constructing five additional diarrhoea treatment centres - in Cox Bazar, in the refugee camp, and in the makeshift settlement. One has already opened; two others will open later this week and the two last ones end of May. We have also prepositioned medicines and supplies.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“At least 3 out of 24 health facilities supported by UNICEF in the camps and makeshift settlements are at risk of flooding. This could affect between 25,000 and 30,000 people, more than half of whom are children. We have set up 10 health facilities, supporting around 250,000 beneficiaries. Working with the Bangladesh Government and the WHO, we are also planning to reach almost 1 million people from 6 to 13 May for the second round of oral cholera vaccination.”
10. Med shot, journalists
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today (1 May) said that during the monsoon season “the overall health and well-being of Rohingya refugee children is affected,” warning of “increased risk of infectious disease, poor water and sanitation hygiene, and injury impact children whose immune systems are already weakened by acute malnutrition.”
UNICEF’s spokesperson, Christophe Boulierac, told journalists in Geneva that “more than 100,000 people, including approximately 55,000 children, are at risk due to floods and landslides,” a figure could go up to 200,000 people “depending on the intensity of rains.”
The pre-monsoon rains have already started in Cox’s Bazar, which is one of the most flood-prone areas of Bangladesh.
Because of the monsoon, Boulierac said, “children are at risk of being cut off from life-saving medical services.” In case of floodings, he said, “the number of people suffering from acute watery diarrhoea is likely to increase, and UNICEF and partners are readying to support an estimated 10,000 people, more than half of which are children, with treatment for acute watery diarrhoea over the next three months.”
UNICEF, he added, “is constructing five additional diarrhoea treatment centres - in Cox Bazar, in the refugee camp, and in the makeshift settlement.”
Boulierac said “at least 3 out of 24 health facilities supported by UNICEF in the camps and makeshift settlements are at risk of flooding. This could affect between 25,000 and 30,000 people, more than half of whom are children. We have set up 10 health facilities, supporting around 250,000 beneficiaries. Working with the Bangladesh Government and the WHO, we are also planning to reach almost 1 million people from 6 to 13 May for the second round of oral cholera vaccination.”
UNICEF is prepositioning emergency water and sanitation supplies, replenishing its stocks of hygiene/dignity kits, dislodging and building latrines.
UNICEF will work to ensure that all children with severe acute malnutrition are accurately identified and fitted with RED identification bracelets to ensure community-based management of acute malnutrition.
UNICEF and partners have admission capacity for 35,000 children aged 6-59 months specifically for severe acute malnutrition treatment.
10 million USD are needed to fund UNICEF’s Monsoon plan. 5.9 Million USD have been raised so far.
