WHO / TEDROS TÜRKIYE SYRIA EARTHQUAKE

STORY: WHO / TEDROS TÜRKIYE SYRIA EARTHQUAKE
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SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 07 FEBRUARY 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, exterior WHO Headquarters

07 FEBRUARY 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
"We're all shocked and saddened by the images and reports coming from Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic.”
4. Wide shot, minute of silence
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“So far, it's estimated that more than 4,000 people have been killed and more than 18,700 are injured. But we all know that these numbers will continue to rise as the situation evolves.”
6. Wide shot, press conference
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Numbers do not tell us about the perilous situation that many families now face, having lost everything, forced to sleep outside in the middle of winter. It's now a race against time. Every minute, every hour that passes, the chances of finding survivors alive diminishes.”
8. Wide shot, press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Continued aftershocks, severe winter conditions, damage to roads, power supplies, communications and other infrastructure, continue to hamper access and other search and rescue efforts.”
10. Wide shot, press conference
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO is dispatching three charter flights to both countries with medical supplies including major surgical trauma kits from our logistics hub in Dubai. We will work closely with all partners to support authorities in both countries in the critical hours and days ahead and in the months and years to come as both countries recover and rebuild.”
12. Wide shot, press conference

STORYLINE:

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Chief today (7 Feb) said, "we're all shocked and saddened by the images and reports coming from Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic,” and announced that the “WHO is dispatching three charter flights to both countries with medical supplies including major surgical trauma kits from our logistics hub in Dubai.”

After a minute of silence for the victims of the earthquake, WHO’s Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus noted that “more than 4,000 people have been killed and more than 18,700 are injured,” adding that “these numbers will continue to rise as the situation evolves.”

Numbers, Tedros said, “do not tell us about the perilous situation that many families now face, having lost everything, forced to sleep outside in the middle of winter.”

He said, “it's now a race against time. Every minute, every hour that passes, the chances of finding survivors alive diminishes.”

The WHO Chief said, “continued aftershocks, severe winter conditions, damage to roads, power supplies, communications and other infrastructure, continue to hamper access and other search and rescue efforts.”

He said, “we will work closely with all partners to support authorities in both countries in the critical hours and days ahead and in the months and years to come as both countries recover and rebuild.”

The epicentre of the initial earthquake was close to the Turkish city of Gaziantep, where WHO has a field office primarily supporting its humanitarian operations in north-western Syria. The field office is now operating as WHO’s response hub for this crisis as well.