WHO / HEALTH EMERGENCIES
21-Jun-2023
00:04:17
The head of the UN World Health Organization said that in Sudan “about two thirds of health facilities in affected areas are out of service” and “repeated attacks on health facilities, medical warehouses, ambulances and health workers are preventing patients and health workers from reaching hospitals.” WHO
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STORY: WHO / HEALTH EMERGENCIES
TRT: 04:17
SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
TRT: 04:17
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
SHOTLIST
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, WHO Headquarters
21 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
3. Wide shot, briefing room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Now to Sudan, where two months of violence have severely impacted the delivery of health services, leaving 11 million people in need of health assistance. About two thirds of health facilities in affected areas are out of service. Repeated attacks on health facilities, medical warehouses, ambulances and health workers are preventing patients and health workers from reaching hospitals.”
5. Wide shot, briefing room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO has verified 46 attacks on health care since the start of the fighting. Critical services have stopped, including for trauma and emergencies, mothers and children, survivors of gender-based violence, and malnutrition and non-communicable diseases. There are significant challenges in controlling ongoing epidemics of measles, malaria and dengue in Sudan. The risk of epidemics will only increase given the upcoming rainy season, limited access to safe water, population displacement, and limited capacity to detect outbreaks early.”
7. Wide shot, briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Last week, WHO released a new funding appeal requesting 145 million U.S. dollars to meet increasing health needs of people affected by violence in Sudan, and those who have fled to the neighbouring Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan.”
9. Wide shot, briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Finally to Peru, which has declared a state of emergency over its worst recorded outbreak of dengue. Since the beginning of this year, almost 150 thousand suspected cases have been reported, more than half of which have been laboratory confirmed.”
11. Wide shot, briefing room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The number of cases reported so far this year is more than double those reported in the same period last year, and more than four times higher than the average of the last 5 years. Although fewer than one percent of cases are of the life-threatening severe kind of dengue, these cases are putting a heavy burden on Peru’s health system.”
13. Wide shot, briefing room
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The incidence of dengue has grown dramatically around the world in recent decades, especially in the Americas, which reported 2.8 million cases and 1280 deaths last year.”
15. Wide shot, briefing room
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO is preparing for the very high probability that 2023 and 2024 will be marked by an El Niño event, which could increase transmission of dengue and other so-called arboviruses such as Zika and chikungunya. The effects of climate change are also fuelling mosquito breeding and the spread of these diseases.”
16. Wide shot, briefing room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The code of marketing breastmilk substitute that was launched in 1981 indicates that marketing of infant formula shouldn't be done. Subsequent resolutions since then have identified the different forms of marketing that should be discouraged through national legislation. It is indeed up to the countries to decide how to legislate.”
18. Wide shot, briefing room
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Countries in South Asia, Africa, are the ones who are producing legislation which is closest to the implementation of the accord. Unfortunately, high income countries are the ones that have less legislation in place and as a consequence the lowest rates of exclusive breast-feeding in children under six months.”
20. Wide shot, briefing room
1. Wide shot, exterior, WHO Headquarters
21 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
3. Wide shot, briefing room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Now to Sudan, where two months of violence have severely impacted the delivery of health services, leaving 11 million people in need of health assistance. About two thirds of health facilities in affected areas are out of service. Repeated attacks on health facilities, medical warehouses, ambulances and health workers are preventing patients and health workers from reaching hospitals.”
5. Wide shot, briefing room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO has verified 46 attacks on health care since the start of the fighting. Critical services have stopped, including for trauma and emergencies, mothers and children, survivors of gender-based violence, and malnutrition and non-communicable diseases. There are significant challenges in controlling ongoing epidemics of measles, malaria and dengue in Sudan. The risk of epidemics will only increase given the upcoming rainy season, limited access to safe water, population displacement, and limited capacity to detect outbreaks early.”
7. Wide shot, briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Last week, WHO released a new funding appeal requesting 145 million U.S. dollars to meet increasing health needs of people affected by violence in Sudan, and those who have fled to the neighbouring Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan.”
9. Wide shot, briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Finally to Peru, which has declared a state of emergency over its worst recorded outbreak of dengue. Since the beginning of this year, almost 150 thousand suspected cases have been reported, more than half of which have been laboratory confirmed.”
11. Wide shot, briefing room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The number of cases reported so far this year is more than double those reported in the same period last year, and more than four times higher than the average of the last 5 years. Although fewer than one percent of cases are of the life-threatening severe kind of dengue, these cases are putting a heavy burden on Peru’s health system.”
13. Wide shot, briefing room
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The incidence of dengue has grown dramatically around the world in recent decades, especially in the Americas, which reported 2.8 million cases and 1280 deaths last year.”
15. Wide shot, briefing room
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO is preparing for the very high probability that 2023 and 2024 will be marked by an El Niño event, which could increase transmission of dengue and other so-called arboviruses such as Zika and chikungunya. The effects of climate change are also fuelling mosquito breeding and the spread of these diseases.”
16. Wide shot, briefing room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The code of marketing breastmilk substitute that was launched in 1981 indicates that marketing of infant formula shouldn't be done. Subsequent resolutions since then have identified the different forms of marketing that should be discouraged through national legislation. It is indeed up to the countries to decide how to legislate.”
18. Wide shot, briefing room
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Countries in South Asia, Africa, are the ones who are producing legislation which is closest to the implementation of the accord. Unfortunately, high income countries are the ones that have less legislation in place and as a consequence the lowest rates of exclusive breast-feeding in children under six months.”
20. Wide shot, briefing room
STORYLINE
The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said that in Sudan “about two thirds of health facilities in affected areas are out of service” and “repeated attacks on health facilities, medical warehouses, ambulances and health workers are preventing patients and health workers from reaching hospitals.”
Briefing journalists today (21 June) in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO's Director-General, said that in Sudan “two months of violence have severely impacted the delivery of health services, leaving 11 million people in need of health assistance.”
Tedros added, “WHO has verified 46 attacks on health care since the start of the fighting. Critical services have stopped, including for trauma and emergencies, mothers and children, survivors of gender-based violence, and malnutrition and non-communicable diseases.”
He continued, “There are significant challenges in controlling ongoing epidemics of measles, malaria and dengue in Sudan.”
According to him, the risk of epidemics will only increase “given the upcoming rainy season, limited access to safe water, population displacement, and limited capacity to detect outbreaks early.”
The UN official also said, “Last week, WHO released a new funding appeal requesting 145 million U.S. dollars to meet increasing health needs of people affected by violence in Sudan, and those who have fled to the neighbouring Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan.”
Tedros also informed about the situation in Peru. He said that Peru “has declared a state of emergency over its worst recorded outbreak of dengue. Since the beginning of this year, almost 150 thousand suspected cases have been reported, more than half of which have been laboratory confirmed.”
Tedros continued, “The number of cases reported so far this year is more than double those reported in the same period last year, and more than four times higher than the average of the last 5 years.”
He also added, “Although fewer than one percent of cases are of the life-threatening severe kind of dengue, these cases are putting a heavy burden on Peru’s health system.”
The UN official also informed, “The incidence of dengue has grown dramatically around the world in recent decades, especially in the Americas, which reported 2.8 million cases and 1280 deaths last year.”
Tedros continued, “WHO is preparing for the very high probability that 2023 and 2024 will be marked by an El Niño event, which could increase transmission of dengue and other so-called arboviruses such as Zika and chikungunya.”
He said, “The effects of climate change are also fueling mosquito breeding and the spread of these diseases.”
Also briefing reporters today, Dr. Francesco Branca, Director of WHO’s Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, said, “The code of marketing breastmilk substitute that was launched in 1981 indicates that marketing of infant formula shouldn't be done. Subsequent resolutions since then have identified the different forms of marketing that should be discouraged through national legislation. It is indeed up to the countries to decide how to legislate.”
He continued, “Countries in South Asia, Africa, are the ones who are producing legislation which is closest to the implementation of the accord.”
Branca stressed, “Unfortunately, high income countries are the ones that have less legislation in place and as a consequence the lowest rates of exclusive breast-feeding in children under six months.”
Briefing journalists today (21 June) in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO's Director-General, said that in Sudan “two months of violence have severely impacted the delivery of health services, leaving 11 million people in need of health assistance.”
Tedros added, “WHO has verified 46 attacks on health care since the start of the fighting. Critical services have stopped, including for trauma and emergencies, mothers and children, survivors of gender-based violence, and malnutrition and non-communicable diseases.”
He continued, “There are significant challenges in controlling ongoing epidemics of measles, malaria and dengue in Sudan.”
According to him, the risk of epidemics will only increase “given the upcoming rainy season, limited access to safe water, population displacement, and limited capacity to detect outbreaks early.”
The UN official also said, “Last week, WHO released a new funding appeal requesting 145 million U.S. dollars to meet increasing health needs of people affected by violence in Sudan, and those who have fled to the neighbouring Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan.”
Tedros also informed about the situation in Peru. He said that Peru “has declared a state of emergency over its worst recorded outbreak of dengue. Since the beginning of this year, almost 150 thousand suspected cases have been reported, more than half of which have been laboratory confirmed.”
Tedros continued, “The number of cases reported so far this year is more than double those reported in the same period last year, and more than four times higher than the average of the last 5 years.”
He also added, “Although fewer than one percent of cases are of the life-threatening severe kind of dengue, these cases are putting a heavy burden on Peru’s health system.”
The UN official also informed, “The incidence of dengue has grown dramatically around the world in recent decades, especially in the Americas, which reported 2.8 million cases and 1280 deaths last year.”
Tedros continued, “WHO is preparing for the very high probability that 2023 and 2024 will be marked by an El Niño event, which could increase transmission of dengue and other so-called arboviruses such as Zika and chikungunya.”
He said, “The effects of climate change are also fueling mosquito breeding and the spread of these diseases.”
Also briefing reporters today, Dr. Francesco Branca, Director of WHO’s Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, said, “The code of marketing breastmilk substitute that was launched in 1981 indicates that marketing of infant formula shouldn't be done. Subsequent resolutions since then have identified the different forms of marketing that should be discouraged through national legislation. It is indeed up to the countries to decide how to legislate.”
He continued, “Countries in South Asia, Africa, are the ones who are producing legislation which is closest to the implementation of the accord.”
Branca stressed, “Unfortunately, high income countries are the ones that have less legislation in place and as a consequence the lowest rates of exclusive breast-feeding in children under six months.”
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