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STORY: WHO / GLOBAL HEALTH UPDATE CHAD VISIT
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SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND /16 SEPTEMBER 2024, ANDRE, CHAD / FILE
FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Close up, WHO flag
19 SEPTEMBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO is working closely with the Ministry of Public Health to respond to the mass casualty event caused by exploding communications devices. These events have severely disrupted Lebanon’s already-fragile health system. For months, WHO and our partners have been supporting Lebanon to prepare for and respond to mass casualty events. We have trained over 5,000 health workers to respond to events like these, covering more than two-thirds of the country’s hospitals.”
4. Wide shot, press room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Last week I was in Sudan, seeing first-hand the devastation that has caused untold destruction, death, disease and the displacement of more than 13 million people. That includes more than 640,000 people who have sought safety across the border in Chad.”
6. Wide shot, press room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Yesterday I returned from Chad, where I had the opportunity to meet some of those people in Adré, on the Chad-Sudan border. I met mothers who had walked with their children for days, after their homes were burned, their crops destroyed, and their animals stolen.”
8. Wide shot, press room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The international community has not given this crisis the attention it deserves. WHO is working closely with our partners to do everything we can to meet the huge challenges these communities are facing. But what they need even more than the aid we provide is a ceasefire, a political solution, and peace.”
10. Wide shot, press room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Now to the outbreaks of mpox in Africa. I say outbreaks, plural, because it’s important to remember that we are not dealing with one outbreak but with several, caused by different strains or clades of the virus in different places.”
12. Wide shot, press room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The virus is being spread primarily through close personal contact, including sex, and within families through caring for young children, breastfeeding, and sharing clothing or bedding. The response to the outbreak is made more difficult by the context, with insecurity in the affected areas, and concurrent outbreaks of other diseases including measles and chickenpox. WHO is on the ground, working to stop these outbreaks.”
14. Wide shot, press room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Vaccines are now being deployed, but vaccines alone will not end these outbreaks and are only one part of the comprehensive preparedness and response plan that WHO and our partners are implementing.”
16. Wide shot, press room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We’re also strengthening surveillance and field investigation, laboratory capacity, home and clinical care, infection prevention and control, and risk communication and community engagement.”
18. Wide shot, press room
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“What we're doing here, like with Ebola, is you're trying to break chains of transmission. You're trying to stop the virus moving from one person to the other. There are various ways of doing that. One of the most effective ways is to give communities the means to do that. By being able to isolate or to be able to as a contact to self-isolate, you need to be fed, you need to have a support while you're doing that. If you're a mother, you need to be able to feed your children. You need to have soap to wash blankets. You need to have new blankets in the case if they're contaminated. So, there are many, many things we can do in terms of preventing that intimate, personal spread of the disease. And as Dr Tedros said, introducing the vaccine gives you that extra, that extra, that extra weapon in the fight.”
20. Wide shot, press room
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Yesterday WHO and our partner FIFA launched a new campaign to raise awareness about concussion in football.”
22. Wide shot, press room
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The “Suspect and Protect” campaign aims to reduce this risk, by helping players, coaches and medical staff at all levels of football to be aware of the signs of concussion, to suspect concussion for anyone who sustains an impact their head, face, neck or body, and to protect anyone with one or more symptoms of concussion by ensuring they leave the pitch immediately. Because no match is worth the risk.”
24. Wide shot, press room
16 SEPTEMBER 2024, ANDRE, CHAD
25. Various shots, landscape, refugees. Dr Tedros and delegation
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“I would like actually to thank Chad for its generosity, because they have nowhere to go, especially the Darfur area, and you have shown your generosity as their brothers and sisters. So thank you so much. I would like to thank you for that.”
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“I saw very good cooperation, by the way, our UN partners when I saw the convoy crossing, and this was a result of the cooperation of all the UN family here. I was so happy to see that. So, we will also cooperate to support the host community based on the needs, the gaps that the host community has.”
28. Various shots, WHO convoy, trucks
World Health Organization (WHO) chief said, “Yesterday I returned from Chad, where I had the opportunity to meet some of those people in Adré, on the Chad-Sudan border. I met mothers who had walked with their children for days, after their homes were burned, their crops destroyed, and their animals stolen.”
Addressing the press today (19 Sep) Dr Tedros said, “Last week I was in Sudan, seeing first-hand the devastation that has caused untold destruction, death, disease and the displacement of more than 13 million people. That includes more than 640,000 people who have sought safety across the border in Chad.”
He continued, “The international community has not given this crisis the attention it deserves. WHO is working closely with our partners to do everything we can to meet the huge challenges these communities are facing. But what they need even more than the aid we provide is a ceasefire, a political solution, and peace.”
He also said, “WHO is working closely with the Ministry of Public Health to respond to the mass casualty event caused by exploding communications devices. These events have severely disrupted Lebanon’s already-fragile health system. For months, WHO and our partners have been supporting Lebanon to prepare for and respond to mass casualty events. We have trained over 5,000 health workers to respond to events like these, covering more than two-thirds of the country’s hospitals.”
Regarding the outbreaks of mpox in Africa, he noted, “I say outbreaks, plural, because it’s important to remember that we are not dealing with one outbreak but with several, caused by different strains or clades of the virus in different places.”
He continued, “The virus is being spread primarily through close personal contact, including sex, and within families through caring for young children, breastfeeding, and sharing clothing or bedding. The response to the outbreak is made more difficult by the context, with insecurity in the affected areas, and concurrent outbreaks of other diseases including measles and chickenpox. WHO is on the ground, working to stop these outbreaks.”
He also said, “Vaccines are now being deployed, but vaccines alone will not end these outbreaks and are only one part of the comprehensive preparedness and response plan that WHO and our partners are implementing.”
He added, “We’re also strengthening surveillance and field investigation, laboratory capacity, home and clinical care, infection prevention and control, and risk communication and community engagement.”
Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director of WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said, “What we're doing here, like with Ebola, is you're trying to break chains of transmission. You're trying to stop the virus moving from one person to the other. There are various ways of doing that. One of the most effective ways is to give communities the means to do that. By being able to isolate or to be able to as a contact to self-isolate, you need to be fed, you need to have a support while you're doing that. If you're a mother, you need to be able to feed your children. You need to have soap to wash blankets. You need to have new blankets in the case if they're contaminated. So, there are many, many things we can do in terms of preventing that intimate, personal spread of the disease. And as Dr Tedros said, introducing the vaccine gives you that extra, that extra, that extra weapon in the fight.”
Dr Tedros said, “Yesterday WHO and our partner FIFA launched a new campaign to raise awareness about concussion in football.”
He added, “The “Suspect and Protect” campaign aims to reduce this risk, by helping players, coaches and medical staff at all levels of football to be aware of the signs of concussion, to suspect concussion for anyone who sustains an impact their head, face, neck or body, and to protect anyone with one or more symptoms of concussion by ensuring they leave the pitch immediately. Because no match is worth the risk.”
