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STORY: UN / VENEZUELA EARTHQUAKES UNPFA PRESSER
TRT: 02:12
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 JULY 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
24 JULY 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Paula Narváez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“I have just returned from Venezuela after spending the past week in La Guaira, one of the areas hardest-hit by the earthquakes. There, I met families who have lost everything, listened to their stories, and saw firsthand their determination to rebuild their lives.”
4. Med shot, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Paula Narváez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“The scale of the disaster means that the needs remain high. The earthquakes exposed and heightened pre-existing inequalities when it comes to access to healthcare and safety.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Paula Narváez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“The health system is under immense strain. Forty-one health facilities have structural damage, with three completely inoperable. Many facilities also face shortages of medicines, equipment and staff. Disruptions to electricity, water supply, and supply chains, together with the urgent need to provide trauma care to thousands of injured people are stretching already limited resources. This includes the life-saving resources needed to provide sexual and reproductive healthcare, particularly emergency obstetric care.”
8. Wide shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Paula Narváez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“UNFPA has been responding to this crisis since day one to scale up life-saving reproductive health services and strengthen gender-based violence prevention and response. These services are central to any humanitarian response.”
10. Med shot, press room dais
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Paula Narváez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“UNFPA requires 10 million US dollars to expand its response and reach 121,000 people in need of reproductive health and protection services. To date, we have only received 40 percent of what we need.”
12. Wide shot, end of presser
Briefing reporters in New York on her recent mission to Venezuela, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Paula Narváez, today (24 Jul) said, “the scale of the disaster means that the needs remain high,” as the earthquakes “exposed and heightened pre-existing inequalities when it comes to access to healthcare and safety.”
Narváez told reporters that during her visit to La Guaira, one of the areas hardest-hit by the earthquakes, she met families “who have lost everything, listened to their stories, and saw firsthand their determination to rebuild their lives.”
She said, “the health system is under immense strain. Forty-one health facilities have structural damage, with three completely inoperable. Many facilities also face shortages of medicines, equipment and staff. Disruptions to electricity, water supply, and supply chains, together with the urgent need to provide trauma care to thousands of injured people are stretching already limited resources.”
This, Narváez stressed, “includes the life-saving resources needed to provide sexual and reproductive healthcare, particularly emergency obstetric care.”
UNFPA, she noted, “has been responding to this crisis since day one to scale up life-saving reproductive health services and strengthen gender-based violence prevention and response.”
The population agency, Narváez said, “requires 10 million US dollars to expand its response and reach 121,000 people in need of reproductive health and protection services,” and to date, has “only received 40 percent of what we need.”
The 24 June 2026 earthquakes claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people and have displaced over 23,000.
