Pathfinder
Editor, Senior Moderator
October 28, 2014
President Koroma Issues Stern Warning to Traditional and Religious Leaders
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?Don?t touch the sick or dead, report to the nearest health centre of any sick person. Don?t wash any corpse when you are not sure of what was the cause of death,? he warned, and furthered that Kailahun has done very well because of the bye-laws and the people are complying.? Whilst calling for the cooperation of traditional and religious leaders to scale up their efforts, he urged the chiefs to invoke the bye-laws and enforce compliance to break the chain of transmission.
President Koroma registered government?s commitment to increasing the number of treatment centers and increase lab capacities, but warned that if the attitude of people does not change ?We will continue to work without results?. He stated that the British are constructing holding and treatment centers that will have their own laboratories in both Bombali and Port Loko districts and noted that the 110 bed capacity treatment centre funded by Addax Bioenergy at the Magbenteh Hospital in Makeni will be completed by 10th November, 2014, while the 100 bed Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in Port Loko will be completed by the end of November. Meanwhile, the District Health Management Team (DHMT) is also constructing a holding and treatment centre in Port Loko; 15 bed holding centre for children, 40 bed holding area, and four units of 12 beds each totaling 48 bed treatment unit. The International Medical Corps (IMC) is also constructing a 100 bed Ebola Treatment Unit in Lunsar and another 100 bed ETU in Makeni with funds being provided by the British government, Irish Aid among others.
The International Medical Corps? Hussein Ibrahim said a total of 100 beds of which 50 beds for confirmed cases and 50 beds for suspected, probable and convalescent cases will be completed by the end of November in Lunsar.
See more at: http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/?p=71401#sthash.BCSvY6jA.dpuf
President Koroma Issues Stern Warning to Traditional and Religious Leaders
...
?Don?t touch the sick or dead, report to the nearest health centre of any sick person. Don?t wash any corpse when you are not sure of what was the cause of death,? he warned, and furthered that Kailahun has done very well because of the bye-laws and the people are complying.? Whilst calling for the cooperation of traditional and religious leaders to scale up their efforts, he urged the chiefs to invoke the bye-laws and enforce compliance to break the chain of transmission.
President Koroma registered government?s commitment to increasing the number of treatment centers and increase lab capacities, but warned that if the attitude of people does not change ?We will continue to work without results?. He stated that the British are constructing holding and treatment centers that will have their own laboratories in both Bombali and Port Loko districts and noted that the 110 bed capacity treatment centre funded by Addax Bioenergy at the Magbenteh Hospital in Makeni will be completed by 10th November, 2014, while the 100 bed Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in Port Loko will be completed by the end of November. Meanwhile, the District Health Management Team (DHMT) is also constructing a holding and treatment centre in Port Loko; 15 bed holding centre for children, 40 bed holding area, and four units of 12 beds each totaling 48 bed treatment unit. The International Medical Corps (IMC) is also constructing a 100 bed Ebola Treatment Unit in Lunsar and another 100 bed ETU in Makeni with funds being provided by the British government, Irish Aid among others.
The International Medical Corps? Hussein Ibrahim said a total of 100 beds of which 50 beds for confirmed cases and 50 beds for suspected, probable and convalescent cases will be completed by the end of November in Lunsar.
See more at: http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/?p=71401#sthash.BCSvY6jA.dpuf
