UN / UNFPA EARTHQUAKE PRESSER

STORY: UN / UNFPA EARTHQUAKE PRESSER
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SOURCE: UNIFEED / FILE
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / 11-12 FEBRUARY 2023, ALEPPO, SYRIA / RECENT

SHOTLIST:

RECENT - NEW YORK CITY

1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations

15 FEBRUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2.Wide shot, press briefing room
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Laila Baker, Arab States Regional Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA):
“We estimate that there are around 130,000 to 140,000 women who are at reproductive age and require medication services and protection for gender-based violence. From them, an estimated 40,000 across all of the territories in Syria are currently pregnant and will deliver within the next three months. Many of the facilities that we visited are already depleted or damaged or both, their stockouts some medications for treating even very basic things like the flu, much less something as complicated as having a C section.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Laila Baker, Arab States Regional Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA):
“We have, they are called kits that basically they are a surgical theater and those are being delivered so that you can have the supplies to be able to deliver C sections. We have a referral system from our partners and within the shelters for free of charge. Emergency deliveries. Today when we visited the maternity hospital, all the wards were full. And we have an agreement with all of our partners around that. It's functioning, their supplies are depleted. We are working to ensure that those supplies and with our partners including with UNICEF and WHO are constantly replenished. Tt is difficult, but we are doing our very best to ensure that there are no gaps. And the appeal and what we are appealing for will be a huge contribution to that.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Laila Baker, Arab States Regional Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA):
“UNFPA launched its appeal for the whole of Syria yesterday in the amount of $24 million. We hope that that will bring great relief in terms of the much-needed assistance, both in terms of people and supplies. We stand ready with our partners to be able to deliver to the most vulnerable communities and individuals on the ground.”
8.Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Laila Baker, Arab States Regional Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA):
“The appeal is only for the next three months, it will only address very basic acute needs. And we are working in collaboration with the rest of the UN family with UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR, particularly on critical issues around shelter protections and water and sanitation. Many of the shelters that we visited, have no sanitation facilities, and for a woman, many of whom are pregnant, they're facing dire circumstances.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room

UNFPA - CREDIT ON SCREEN - 12 FEBRUARY 2023, ALEPPO, SYRIA

10. Various shots, building rubbles
11. Wide shot, UNFPA van distributing supplies near shelter area
12. Med shot, UNFPA staff, affected people, tent

UNFPA - CREDIT ON SCREEN - 11 FEBRUARY 2023, ALEPPO, SYRIA

13.Various shots, building rubbles

STORYLINE:

UNFPA estimated that there are around 130,000 to 140,000 women in Syria who are at reproductive age and require medication services and protection for gender-based violence. An estimated 40,000 women are currently pregnant and will deliver within the next three months, said a senior UNFPA official in the region.

Laila Baker, Arab States Regional Director of UN Population Fund (UNFPA) briefed reporters remotely from Aleppo, Syria today (15 Feb) on the impact of the earthquake on women in the region.

She said, “we estimate that many of the facilities that we visited are already depleted or damaged or both, their stockouts some medications for treating even very basic things like the flu, much less something as complicated as having a C section.”

Baker said that surgical kits are being delivered for C sections, adding that “we have a referral system from our partners and within the shelters for free of charge. Emergency deliveries.

She continued, “today when we visited the maternity hospital, all the wards were full. And we have an agreement with all of our partners around that. It's functioning, their supplies are depleted.”

Baker reiterated, “we are working to ensure that those supplies and with our partners including with UNICEF and WHO are constantly replenished.”

She added that it is difficult, but “we are doing our very best to ensure that there are no gaps. And the appeal and what we are appealing for will be a huge contribution to that.”

UNFPA launched its appeal for Syria on Tuesday in the amount of $24 million. The Regional Director said, “we hope that that will bring great relief in terms of the much-needed assistance, both in terms of people and supplies. We stand ready with our partners to be able to deliver to the most vulnerable communities and individuals on the ground.”

Baker further explained, “the appeal is only for the next three months, it will only address very basic acute needs. And we are working in collaboration with the rest of the UN family with UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR, particularly on critical issues around shelter protections and water and sanitation. Many of the shelters that we visited, have no sanitation facilities, and for a woman, many of whom are pregnant, they're facing dire circumstances.”