WHO / UKRAINE MOBILE VACCINATION
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STORY: WHO / UKRAINE MOBILE VACCINATION
TRT: 4:09
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2023, LVIV, UKRAINE
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot, buses
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Today is a great day of strengthening primary health care services in Ukraine by the donation, thanks to the European Union, of 59 buses to reach underage children with routine immunization. It is so important that the routine immunization is strengthened. Vaccines work. Vaccines save lives.”
3. Wide shot, WHO, EU, Ukrainian Ministry of Health staff
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO):
“There are quite a number of areas geographically which are difficult to reach. So, we need more both teams instead of the people coming to the healthcare. Let the health care go to the people.”
5. Med shot, WHO, EU, Ukrainian Ministry of Health staff
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“These 59 buses will travel across the whole Ukraine to support the national vaccination programme. We need to scale up vaccination for COVID because the pandemic is not over, to ensure that the routine vaccines that are available for IDPs, for children. And these buses will help the vaccination teams, the mobile vaccination teams to make that happen.”
7. Various shots, WHO staff, buses
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are scaling up the vaccination because some areas we have not had the cold chain in place. In some areas which are regained, we need to put primary health care back in the frontline to work so that people can feel safe and secure while going back to their homes. So, there are places in Ukraine where we need to build up the public health functions again, where we need to ensure primary care to be available. And these buses allow also to reach to the villages, to the homes, to bring people to closer to the health system and vaccination programme.”
9. Various shots, buses
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Vusala Allahverdiyeva, Technical Officer, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Immunization, Country Office Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Because of electricity cuts we see everywhere in Ukraine now, we understand that distribution of vaccine supplies unfortunately limited only to facilities where we have stable electricity or additional means how to maintain vaccine cold chain. And these buses exactly will support health care providers to reach places where there is no opportunity conditions to store vaccine or distribute vaccine for long term storage or midterm storage.”
11. Various shots, WHO, EU, Ukrainian Ministry of Health staff
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“When WHO looked to the buses, and we worked with the authorities on the vaccination program, we knew that for the COVID, particularly last years, we knew that we need to reach the 65 and older population groups. And that's why we know also that people are in wheelchairs. They have limited ability to move. So that's why these buses are also designed in a way that people with a wheelchair can also use the services.”
13. Various shots, buses
STORYLINE:
The World Health Organization (WHO), with European Union (EU) support, has donated 59 buses to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to help strengthen far-flung vaccination efforts across the country during the war.
The buses will be staffed by mobile and outreach teams and will travel across all regions controlled by the Government of Ukraine to administer vaccines against infectious diseases, including COVID-19, measles, and diphtheria, with a particular focus on internally displaced persons (IDPs) and vulnerable groups, including the elderly and those with chronic health conditions and anyone residing in remote and hard-to-reach areas.
““Today is a great day of strengthening primary health care services in Ukraine by the donation, thanks to the European Union, of 59 buses to reach underage children with routine immunization. It is so important that the routine immunization is strengthened. Vaccines work. Vaccines save lives,” said Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe.
“There are quite a number of areas geographically which are difficult to reach. So, we need more both teams instead of the people coming to the healthcare. Let the health care go to the people,” he added.
From April to December 2022, with WHO support in partnership with the EU and USAID, up to 400,000 people across 1,500 locations in 8 regions have been reached with outreach immunization services, which include vaccinations and information on how to catch up on required immunization to prevent the outbreaks of infectious diseases.
COVID-19 and routine vaccines are provided by public health care facilities throughout Ukraine and are administered according to global recommendations and in line with the national vaccination calendar. Vaccines are available and administered free of charge in the country.
The donated buses will be distributed by the Ministry of Health among all regional centres for disease control and prevention (CDCs).
WHO in Ukraine supports the national immunization program in partnership with the EU.
This includes strengthening program capacities at the national and regional levels, providing technical and operational support to eliminate inequities in vaccine coverage, extending population access to services, as well as informational support for vaccination campaigns to prevent further large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases.
WHO shares recommendations and technical guidance, conducts training for immunization program specialists and health care workers, provides consumables, and also assists in the delivery of vaccines to Ukraine as part of the COVAX international initiative.
Dr. Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative in Ukraine, said, “WHO in Ukraine will continue to work tirelessly to support immunization efforts and help the country to increase vaccination coverage this year. Today’s crucial donation of buses with the EU marks a major step in this direction, and we thank our partners, and the Ministry of Health, for continuing to provide their populations with effective protection against infectious diseases.”
“This donation will also help to address the most recent challenges faced by the health system due to ongoing missile attacks to energy infrastructure, which significantly affect vaccine cold chain and vaccine distribution to locations without a stable electricity supply,” Dr. Habicht added.
He also said, “Intensifying mobile and outreach services will help to better serve populations residing in these areas and improve their protection from infectious diseases.”
TRT: 4:09
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2023, LVIV, UKRAINE
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot, buses
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Today is a great day of strengthening primary health care services in Ukraine by the donation, thanks to the European Union, of 59 buses to reach underage children with routine immunization. It is so important that the routine immunization is strengthened. Vaccines work. Vaccines save lives.”
3. Wide shot, WHO, EU, Ukrainian Ministry of Health staff
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO):
“There are quite a number of areas geographically which are difficult to reach. So, we need more both teams instead of the people coming to the healthcare. Let the health care go to the people.”
5. Med shot, WHO, EU, Ukrainian Ministry of Health staff
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“These 59 buses will travel across the whole Ukraine to support the national vaccination programme. We need to scale up vaccination for COVID because the pandemic is not over, to ensure that the routine vaccines that are available for IDPs, for children. And these buses will help the vaccination teams, the mobile vaccination teams to make that happen.”
7. Various shots, WHO staff, buses
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jarno Habicht, Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are scaling up the vaccination because some areas we have not had the cold chain in place. In some areas which are regained, we need to put primary health care back in the frontline to work so that people can feel safe and secure while going back to their homes. So, there are places in Ukraine where we need to build up the public health functions again, where we need to ensure primary care to be available. And these buses allow also to reach to the villages, to the homes, to bring people to closer to the health system and vaccination programme.”
9. Various shots, buses
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Vusala Allahverdiyeva, Technical Officer, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Immunization, Country Office Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Because of electricity cuts we see everywhere in Ukraine now, we understand that distribution of vaccine supplies unfortunately limited only to facilities where we have stable electricity or additional means how to maintain vaccine cold chain. And these buses exactly will support health care providers to reach places where there is no opportunity conditions to store vaccine or distribute vaccine for long term storage or midterm storage.”
11. Various shots, WHO, EU, Ukrainian Ministry of Health staff
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO):
“When WHO looked to the buses, and we worked with the authorities on the vaccination program, we knew that for the COVID, particularly last years, we knew that we need to reach the 65 and older population groups. And that's why we know also that people are in wheelchairs. They have limited ability to move. So that's why these buses are also designed in a way that people with a wheelchair can also use the services.”
13. Various shots, buses
STORYLINE:
The World Health Organization (WHO), with European Union (EU) support, has donated 59 buses to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to help strengthen far-flung vaccination efforts across the country during the war.
The buses will be staffed by mobile and outreach teams and will travel across all regions controlled by the Government of Ukraine to administer vaccines against infectious diseases, including COVID-19, measles, and diphtheria, with a particular focus on internally displaced persons (IDPs) and vulnerable groups, including the elderly and those with chronic health conditions and anyone residing in remote and hard-to-reach areas.
““Today is a great day of strengthening primary health care services in Ukraine by the donation, thanks to the European Union, of 59 buses to reach underage children with routine immunization. It is so important that the routine immunization is strengthened. Vaccines work. Vaccines save lives,” said Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe.
“There are quite a number of areas geographically which are difficult to reach. So, we need more both teams instead of the people coming to the healthcare. Let the health care go to the people,” he added.
From April to December 2022, with WHO support in partnership with the EU and USAID, up to 400,000 people across 1,500 locations in 8 regions have been reached with outreach immunization services, which include vaccinations and information on how to catch up on required immunization to prevent the outbreaks of infectious diseases.
COVID-19 and routine vaccines are provided by public health care facilities throughout Ukraine and are administered according to global recommendations and in line with the national vaccination calendar. Vaccines are available and administered free of charge in the country.
The donated buses will be distributed by the Ministry of Health among all regional centres for disease control and prevention (CDCs).
WHO in Ukraine supports the national immunization program in partnership with the EU.
This includes strengthening program capacities at the national and regional levels, providing technical and operational support to eliminate inequities in vaccine coverage, extending population access to services, as well as informational support for vaccination campaigns to prevent further large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases.
WHO shares recommendations and technical guidance, conducts training for immunization program specialists and health care workers, provides consumables, and also assists in the delivery of vaccines to Ukraine as part of the COVAX international initiative.
Dr. Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative in Ukraine, said, “WHO in Ukraine will continue to work tirelessly to support immunization efforts and help the country to increase vaccination coverage this year. Today’s crucial donation of buses with the EU marks a major step in this direction, and we thank our partners, and the Ministry of Health, for continuing to provide their populations with effective protection against infectious diseases.”
“This donation will also help to address the most recent challenges faced by the health system due to ongoing missile attacks to energy infrastructure, which significantly affect vaccine cold chain and vaccine distribution to locations without a stable electricity supply,” Dr. Habicht added.
He also said, “Intensifying mobile and outreach services will help to better serve populations residing in these areas and improve their protection from infectious diseases.”
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