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The killer disease just won?t stop as residents in hardly-hit communities cry for help; but an overwhelmed health system is dumping dead bodies and leaving some in communities for days, putting these communities further at risk
Monrovia - The deadly Ebola virus continues to tear its way through the hearts of many Liberians leading to many deaths and even President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called it unprecedented.
On Friday, the government was overwhelmed by calls from communities around the country that there were dead bodies lying around everywhere. In Dolo?s Town along the Monrovia-Robertsfield highway, eleven persons laid dead waiting for the health team to pick them up. In the Duport Road area, residents of the community were chasing out a burial team that had come to assist in burying a suspected Ebola victim.
?We asked them to find a gravesite to bury and they found a spot in this community. But after they dug the hole and we were on our way to the gravesite the community refused for us to go and bury,? said Peter Varpilah a member of the burial team from the health ministry as he led the convoy out of the Duport Road with the dead body of a woman who had died and was being kept in a house by her family for over five days.
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Roadblocks, teargas
On Sunday morning as Liberians prepared for church, residents of the St. Paul?s Bridge community staged roadblocks in protest of dead bodies lying in their community for five days now. ?We have an Ebola body on the ground up till now nobody to pick it up. We?ve been waiting for four days now and nobody to pick it up,? said Mohamed Kollie a resident of the area.
?We decided to put roadblock down and the police started shooting tear gas. We have four bodies lying down in St. Paul Bridge community alone, one in the Island Clinic area under the tree and the other three in houses around here.? Residents are visibly scared as a result of the deadly virus and people are not reporting their sick to health centers but are instead caring for them at home.
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Johnsonville?s awful sight
For the past two days, in Kparpeh?s Town, lower Johnsonville Township, Montserrado County, residents have gone to bed in fear. The area has not had many Ebola cases reported so far, but on Saturday, 37 dead bodies were brought and dumped in the area. Authorities of the Ministry of Heath and social welfare secured a spot to bury Ebola dead in the Kparpeh?s town area, an action that sparked a standoff between residents and the security forces.
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Monrovia - The deadly Ebola virus continues to tear its way through the hearts of many Liberians leading to many deaths and even President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called it unprecedented.
On Friday, the government was overwhelmed by calls from communities around the country that there were dead bodies lying around everywhere. In Dolo?s Town along the Monrovia-Robertsfield highway, eleven persons laid dead waiting for the health team to pick them up. In the Duport Road area, residents of the community were chasing out a burial team that had come to assist in burying a suspected Ebola victim.
?We asked them to find a gravesite to bury and they found a spot in this community. But after they dug the hole and we were on our way to the gravesite the community refused for us to go and bury,? said Peter Varpilah a member of the burial team from the health ministry as he led the convoy out of the Duport Road with the dead body of a woman who had died and was being kept in a house by her family for over five days.
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Roadblocks, teargas
On Sunday morning as Liberians prepared for church, residents of the St. Paul?s Bridge community staged roadblocks in protest of dead bodies lying in their community for five days now. ?We have an Ebola body on the ground up till now nobody to pick it up. We?ve been waiting for four days now and nobody to pick it up,? said Mohamed Kollie a resident of the area.
?We decided to put roadblock down and the police started shooting tear gas. We have four bodies lying down in St. Paul Bridge community alone, one in the Island Clinic area under the tree and the other three in houses around here.? Residents are visibly scared as a result of the deadly virus and people are not reporting their sick to health centers but are instead caring for them at home.
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Johnsonville?s awful sight
For the past two days, in Kparpeh?s Town, lower Johnsonville Township, Montserrado County, residents have gone to bed in fear. The area has not had many Ebola cases reported so far, but on Saturday, 37 dead bodies were brought and dumped in the area. Authorities of the Ministry of Heath and social welfare secured a spot to bury Ebola dead in the Kparpeh?s town area, an action that sparked a standoff between residents and the security forces.
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