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Niamah

lines on the record: 7
first: 2014-09-18
most recent: 2014-09-18
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-security-council

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“We do not have the capacity to respond to the crisis on our own. If the international community does not stand up, we will be wiped out. We need Member States' help. We need it now.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“We have seen too many health workers and ambulance drivers come into our centres as patients, facing the same fate. So we plead for helicopters, centres, beds and expert personnel, but we also need the basics. There are still homes in Monrovia that do not have soap, water and buckets. Even those simple things could help curb the spread of the virus. Ebola has affected all aspects of our lives. Schools and universities have shut down, along with public services. I feel that the fate of my country, the future of my country, is hanging in the balance. My wife works at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia. We are educating our children; they serve as an example for their peers. We ask the United Nations to be an example for peers, as nations with the resources, assets and skills required to stop this catastrophe.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“On my night shift, I saw a patient who was driven in an ambulance about 12 hours because there was no other treatment centre. We urgently need to get the disease under control, and we need the Council's help. We need what is referred to as "contact tracing" in order to follow up every person who has been in contact with someone who is sick with Ebola or has died from Ebola. We need to raise awareness about the disease, because there has been so much denial even now and despite international attention. We need more care centres so that everyone can find a bed and not have to stay at home and infect other people. We need to get our medical staff trained in proper procedures, so that they can keep the centres running. We also need to get health services running and to ensure that workers and ambulances are safe for the health staff.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“We are failing the sick because there is not enough help on the ground. We are failing those who will inevitably become infected, because we cannot care properly for the sick in a safe, protected environment to prevent the spread of the virus. One day this week, I sat outside the treatment centre eating my lunch. I met a boy who approached the gate. His father had died from Ebola a week ago. I saw him with blood at his mouth. We had no space, so we could not to take him in. We could see that his mouth was bloody. When he turned away to walk into town, I thought to myself that that boy is going to take a taxi, and he is going to go home to see his family, be at home and infect his family. He will also infect other people.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“They die alone, terrified and without their loved ones at their side. As medics, we must have a different way of coping. When I go inside the Ebola treatment centre, I keep my focus on my patients' needs. We try to attend and help first those who are much weaker, those who need the most help - food and water - and those who want to talk to our counsellors because they are so traumatized and frightened. We are trying to treat as many as we can, but there are not nearly enough treatment centres and beds. We have to turn people away, and many are dying at our front gate. Right now, as I speak, there are patients sitting at our front gates, literally begging for life. They rightly feel isolated, neglected, alone and denied. They are left alone; they die a horrible death, an undignified death.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“Since I have a medical background, I felt that I had the responsibility to help my country. I am a team leader in Medecins Sans Frontieres's Monrovia treatment centre. I have worked in the triage section, assessing patients prior to admission, in the suspected- cases tent and with patients confirmed to be carrying the Ebola virus. Because there is no cure, we can only provide supportive care to our patients in the form of food, hydration and the basic treatment of symptoms. If treated early enough, chances of survival are much better. I cannot stand aside to watch my people die. But I, along with my colleagues, cannot fight Ebola alone. We need the international community; the international community must help us. I wish to illustrate the battle we face. We have seen so many patients die.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“I wish to thank Ambassador Power for inviting my organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), to address the nations who can help my people, my country and my region. I am honoured to represent MSF. We welcome President Obama's Ebola response plan and hope for its immediate implementation. We also call upon all States Members of the United Nations to similarly mobilize their capacities. With every day that passes, the epidemic spreads and destroys more lives. I first heard about cases of Ebola in March; soon after, the disease came here to Monrovia. From then on, people began dying. My niece, Francila Kollie, and my cousin, Jounpu Lowea, both nurses, became infected at work. While they were being treated, they died in late July. So many of my friends, university classmates and colleagues have died in recent months.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source