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Wed, 17 sept 2014, 11:48
Post Par Amadou Tham Camara
Ebola: Fear at hospitals in Conakry!
In Conakry to be auscultate for the flu, a malaria, dysentery or other diseases with similar symptoms to Ebola becomes an ordeal. The health workforce is growing concern over consultation for fear of being infected by the Ebola virus.
At Sino-hospital Kip? Guinea (Conakry suburb), fear has reached fever pitch. It is 8 hours 30 minutes this Tuesday, Sept. 16, the waiting room is full of patients . After paying the fee consultations to 50,000 Guinean francs, patients are provided with a booklet of consultation which is no longer used much. Doctors and nurses multiply the comings and goings around the patients in hospital corridors. At 11 hours 20 minutes, a doctor takes a furtive and frightened look on patients sitting in the waiting room, looking for the slightest sign of Ebola outside before returning to his office down the hall, in a hurry . But until thirteen hours, no consultation ...
The news circulating is not good: it is rumored that at communal Medical Center of Matam, two doctors and two nurses caught Ebola and one person died on Sunday. Worse, two suspected patients had traveled to the hospital Sino Guinean two days earlier before being returned to the treatment center Ebola Donka.
Already traumatized by the death of six colleagues in the month of April, the nursing staff of the hospital Guinea Sino Kip? is now in a paranoiac sinecure: doctors refuse to treat. And every day, they curse the 17 March, the day when they received this patient came from Dabola that contaminated nine of their colleagues ...
In the other major national hospitals in Conakry, whole departments are no longer open because of Ebola cases detected. So since two weeks, the intensive care unit of the Ignace Deen hospital is closed. The gynecological ward of the same hospital barricaded for the same reasons. Similarly motherhood Donka Hospital, the largest in the country, no longer works.
Since the beginning of the week, there's a minimum service at the Ignace Deen hospital: an unwritten instruction was given to non-essential personnel to remain at home.
Professor Hassan Bah, president of the Medical Association of Guinea justified fear of doctors to Guin?enews by phone: "We are afraid because we have 28 colleagues who have died and we have over fifty who are hospitalized to date. We are afraid because we do not have enough material and we are not protected. "
Yet, according to several medical sources, the central pharmacy recently awarded 14,000 pairs of gloves, goggles, bibs and thermo flash to different hospitals and clinics. However, end users of these instruments of protection receive it only sparingly. Trafficking of material exists today and the gloves are resold 1500 FG at Donka Hospital, according to a medical source.
In this pandemonium, malaria which remains, nevertheless, the first public health problem in Guinea, with over 30% of consultations, and the leading cause of hospital deaths (14%), according to WHO, yet beautiful day to improve his macabre figures. Because of muffled silence caused by the deafening uproar about Ebola.
http://guineenews.org/ebola-peur-sur-les-hopitaux-de-conakry/
Wed, 17 sept 2014, 11:48
Post Par Amadou Tham Camara
Ebola: Fear at hospitals in Conakry!
In Conakry to be auscultate for the flu, a malaria, dysentery or other diseases with similar symptoms to Ebola becomes an ordeal. The health workforce is growing concern over consultation for fear of being infected by the Ebola virus.
At Sino-hospital Kip? Guinea (Conakry suburb), fear has reached fever pitch. It is 8 hours 30 minutes this Tuesday, Sept. 16, the waiting room is full of patients . After paying the fee consultations to 50,000 Guinean francs, patients are provided with a booklet of consultation which is no longer used much. Doctors and nurses multiply the comings and goings around the patients in hospital corridors. At 11 hours 20 minutes, a doctor takes a furtive and frightened look on patients sitting in the waiting room, looking for the slightest sign of Ebola outside before returning to his office down the hall, in a hurry . But until thirteen hours, no consultation ...
The news circulating is not good: it is rumored that at communal Medical Center of Matam, two doctors and two nurses caught Ebola and one person died on Sunday. Worse, two suspected patients had traveled to the hospital Sino Guinean two days earlier before being returned to the treatment center Ebola Donka.
Already traumatized by the death of six colleagues in the month of April, the nursing staff of the hospital Guinea Sino Kip? is now in a paranoiac sinecure: doctors refuse to treat. And every day, they curse the 17 March, the day when they received this patient came from Dabola that contaminated nine of their colleagues ...
In the other major national hospitals in Conakry, whole departments are no longer open because of Ebola cases detected. So since two weeks, the intensive care unit of the Ignace Deen hospital is closed. The gynecological ward of the same hospital barricaded for the same reasons. Similarly motherhood Donka Hospital, the largest in the country, no longer works.
Since the beginning of the week, there's a minimum service at the Ignace Deen hospital: an unwritten instruction was given to non-essential personnel to remain at home.
Professor Hassan Bah, president of the Medical Association of Guinea justified fear of doctors to Guin?enews by phone: "We are afraid because we have 28 colleagues who have died and we have over fifty who are hospitalized to date. We are afraid because we do not have enough material and we are not protected. "
Yet, according to several medical sources, the central pharmacy recently awarded 14,000 pairs of gloves, goggles, bibs and thermo flash to different hospitals and clinics. However, end users of these instruments of protection receive it only sparingly. Trafficking of material exists today and the gloves are resold 1500 FG at Donka Hospital, according to a medical source.
In this pandemonium, malaria which remains, nevertheless, the first public health problem in Guinea, with over 30% of consultations, and the leading cause of hospital deaths (14%), according to WHO, yet beautiful day to improve his macabre figures. Because of muffled silence caused by the deafening uproar about Ebola.
http://guineenews.org/ebola-peur-sur-les-hopitaux-de-conakry/