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  • Guinea - Ebola: WHO urges Alpha Cond? to declare a state of emergency; there are only "19 patients in Guinea" , according to the health ministry

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    Ebola: Guinea refuses to declare a state of emergency as recommended by WHO

    Post by Guineematin 8 - August - 2014
    Last Updated: August 8, 2014 - 5:58 p.m. GMT
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    The emergency committee of the WHO is "unanimous in considering that the conditions for a public health emergency of global significance are met," said a statement. "A coordinated international response is essential to stop and reduce the international spread of Ebola," said the committee.

    It is this concern that an recommandation has been made by WHO to countries affected by the disease to declare a state of emergency. These include Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

    But the authorities, through the doctor Colonel Remy Lamah, argue that "the state of emergency is not necessary in Guinea, as the situation is under control," says the minister of health. Arguing that every Ebola patients are followed, as well as their contacts.

    Yet our Liberian neighbors and Leoneans have declared a state of emergency to better cope with the disease.
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    L’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), qui sort d’une réunion de deux jours (mercredi et jeudi à Genève) consacrée à l’épidémie d’Ebola a décrété ce vendredi 08 août une «urgence de santé publique de portée mondiale». Le comité d’urgence de l’OMS est «unanime pour considérer que les conditions d’une urgence de santé publique de portée […]

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    Fri, August 8th, 2014, 6:24 p.m. Posted By Guineenews

    Ebola: WHO urges Alpha Cond? to declare a state of emergency; there are only "19 patients in Guinea," according to the health ministry.
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    In a statement posted on its website Friday, the World Health Organization asked the heads of state of "all countries where there's been a transmission of the Ebola virus" to "declare a state of emergency national level "and" go personally to the nation to provide information on the situation. "

    This injunction is primarily for Alpha Cond? as Ernest Bai Kouroumah Sierra Leone and Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had already declared a state of emergency in the country.

    We joined the Minister spokesman of the government whether the Guinean government will respond favorably to the request of WHO declaring a state of emergency. Damantang Camara promised to contact us again later to give the government's position.

    In the afternoon of Friday, the Ministry of Health, in response, issued a state of the epidemic in Guinea, which states that there are only 19 patients Ebola in Guinea date.
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    "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
    -Nelson Mandela
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