Guinea - Ebola: schools emptied after false rumors of spraying and vaccination

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Wed, February 11, 2015, 3:47 p.m.
Posted By Mame Diallo


Ebola: Conakry Schools emptied after spraying false alerts

Spray rumors of schools persist and continue to paralyze classes in schools in Conakry. This Wednesday, February 11 as the previous days, many students have deserted the classrooms to return to their homes in a panic. This morning, around 11 am, a real scene of panic blew on schools in the capital, has found your daily online Guineenews.

At Sangoyah Primary School in the town of Matoto, the director was forced to let students go on the pretext that a team of the Guinean Red Cross should go there to spray. This situation has led some students housed near the school, to flee courses to go home. Others who are not so lucky, had to take their troubles patiently awaiting the arrival of their parents they had called to pick them up.

This school is not the only one who was hit by panic. In the commune of Kaloum, the same movement was recorded at some schools for the same reason, we have learned.

Even private schools have been drawn into the same psychosis with the exception of a few. In particular, the school St. Joseph of Cluny, led by the good Samaritan. Here at the front, many parents were forced to wait the usual time to recover their children. That is to say 14 hours.

These crazy rumors are categorically denied by the authorities in charge of the response against Ebola. Dr Sakoba Ke?ta, national coordinator of the fight against Ebola says that "schools and other public places are not areas to be sprayed. This strategy applies only to homes of people affected by the Ebola disease. "He added: "These are rumors that annihilate all efforts on the ground."

For now, the situation seems to worry the highest authority of the country. From sources, Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana plans to discuss with the ministers in charge of Education, ways and means to stop such rumors who could doom to failure the multiple efforts in the response against Ebola.

http://guineenews.org/ebola-les-eco...apres-des-fausses-alertes-a-la-pulverisation/

 

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Faranah: Rumors of spraying in schools, MSF vehicle burned by the population.

Posted by: Mosaiqueguinee.com in News February 15, 2015 Faranah

Rumors of spraying and vaccination of students in schools were spread in Faranah. After Conakry, panic scenes were recorded in several schools in the city Friday. The news of spraying in schools has spread like wildfire in many schools.

Which also pushed parents to go pick up their children by force in classrooms. These panic scenes then reached the Ebola treatment center in construction. Very angry protesters attacked the center before burning a vehicle of Doctors Without Borders, MSF.

According to Madam the prefect of Faranah, two MSF workers working in this center for hours taken hostage by the population, had locked themselves in a room. They were extracted from the room by the forces that have restored order in the city.

It is learned that there was a wounded on the side of the protesters, but he was quickly taken over by the authorities. This Saturday, we learn that calm has returned to schools that had experienced the old scenes of panic because of these crazy rumors. Sekou Bah

http://mosaiqueguinee.com/2015/02/1...n-vehicule-de-msf-incendie-par-la-population/

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Sun., February 15, 2015, 10:39
Posted By Mamadi Camara

Spray rumor of schools: an MSF vehicle calcinated at Faranah (witness)

As we announced in our previous dispatches, false rumors of spraying have created panic in Faranah Friday 13 February. Following rumors of a possible spray of schools who quickly covered the urban district of Faranah and caused a stampede in the region, the schools were taken over by the parents to take their children there. On their way back, the students burned a vehicle doctors without borders. This was the observation made by the editor of local Guineenews ? locally.

Questioned, Ismael Camara electromechanical and eyewitness of the events explained the circumstances that led to the firing of a vehicle Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Read!

"Before this movement, the vehicle of Doctors without Borders (MSF) was parked in the courtyard of the Ebola transit center in the vicinity of (3) schools. As soon as students learned the rumor of immunization through the cries of women seeking their children alleged that the Red Cross team arrived in schools to vaccinate children. This is what created the panic and classes were interrupted. At the exit of students, they automatically attacked the agents of doctors without borders thinking that they had come for the matter. It was in that moment that I came myself rescuing two expatriates who were locked in a room surrounded by the students to make them flee the transit center where I was hit in the head by stones that they threw to them. Then they set fire to the vehicle Land Cruiser that was parked in the yard of the center before the arrival of the police ... " This act was severely frowned upon by the local authorities. In a statement released on 12 February, the Movement of the Red Cross said to be worry by the violence against volunteers in Guinea.

http://guineenews.org/rumeur-de-pulverisations-des-ecoles-un-vehicule-msf-calcine-a-faranah-temoin/

 

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Tues, February 17, 2015, 5:19
Posted By Mamadi Camara

Ebola transit center sacked in Faranah: the details from an health official

"If our country has dragged in the eradication of Ebola, this is due to the reluctance of citizens to this viral disease and this reluctance is caused by unfounded rumors" says Dr. Idrissa Camara, prefectural coordinator in response to Ebola in Faranah.

Following the false rumors of spraying which have spontaneously traveled the urban district Friday, February 13, 2015 and which led to the burning of an MSF vehicle and the sacking of the Ebola transit center, the prefectural response coordinator, Dr Idrissa Camara gave an interview to the local editor of Guineenews ? this Monday morning.

Guineenews? : What has happened?

Dr Idrissa Camara: It is an unfortunate and not at all biased incident. These are the same who are in most prefectures of the country, even in Conakry alleged that health services are preparing to vaccinate children in schools. This is what happened in Faranah and this rumor did that some parents headed to schools to take their children and they have followed them.

Thus the transit center being in the vicinity of a college, the children when they came out attacked it in the first position; They ransacked it and took away doors, windows, ceilings, panels and equipment ... at same the time that two of our expatriate colleagues MSF (Doctors without borders) were seeing how future work of this center would be realized. Unfortunately, their vehicle which was parked was completely charred; they were insulted, stoned and surrounded by protesters. They still managed to escape to go locked in a room because they could not escape. It is a citizen of good will who released them from this place to save their life.

? Guineenews: What are the steps taken by the prefectural coordination?

Dr Idrissa Camara: First, it was to get out the MSF expatriates from this place and to safety. This is what was done by the police. Then open an investigation to find the culprits and bring them to justice.

...What appeal can you launch to authorities and working people of Faranah?

Dr Idrissa Camara: The call that I would launch, first the political and administrative authorities to continue awareness campaigns to citizens on the existence of the Ebola virus disease, modes of transmission and spread of the disease; Second, to the basic citizens, to understand that we also have children in school so we can not take any action that could interfere with other people's children while the information circulating are false. If our country has dragged in the eradication of Ebola, this is due to the reluctance of citizens to this viral disease and this reluctance is caused by unfounded rumors.

Interview by Mamadi Camara, from Faranah for Guineenews ?

http://guineenews.org/le-centre-de-...anah-les-precisions-dun-officiel-de-la-sante/