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Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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World Health Organization warned of the spread of scary virus Ebola in West Africa, especially in the countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, starting from December, fearing casualties in the thousands per week, and in conjunction with the warnings raised by Britain, France and the United States precautionary measures in airports to detect no injuries might respond to it through the flights.
The organization expressed fears of registration between 5000 and ten thousand injured a week, stressing that the deaths hemorrhagic fever now exceed 4,400 deaths, mostly in those three countries, while said Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization Bruce Aillward, that the mortality rate among people with hemorrhagic fever caused for Ebola in these countries may reach 70%.
Said Aillward "The epidemic continues to lead in West Africa", pointing out that he is now registered 1000 new cases per week, and warned that the number of casualties rises steadily in the capitals of these countries, and that the real number is estimated and a half times, which is officially registered in Guinea, and twice more in Sierra Leone, and two and a half in Liberia.
Britain started to monitor passengers arriving at airports and train stations, as did the United States and Canada, where they will be questioned passengers coming from countries most affected by the virus, will also be starting on Tuesday measuring temperature passengers at Heathrow Airport. France intends to apply similar measures for flights coming from Guinea, and it was decided to conduct a five airports American receives 94% of the passengers coming from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea passenger screening procedures upon arrival.
In spite of this negative news, the World Health Organization said in a statement in Geneva that she could announce the demise of the wave of Ebola in Senegal next Friday, and then in Nigeria next Monday if you did not register any new infections in these countries until that time.
A senior official at the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the organization expects the occurrence of five thousand to ten thousand cases of Ebola virus in western Africa a week, starting from December / December next. While senior official warned the United Nations on Tuesday that the world is going to lose the battle against the epidemic and that it is unable to stop the spread.
The Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization Bruce Aillward in Geneva, the organization recorded more than 8900 cases of Baapola and more than 4400 thousand deaths after infection with the virus since the beginning of the epidemic in West Africa.
The number of new cases is about thousand cases per week over the past few weeks. However, he stressed Aillward it is premature to say that the haemorrhagic fever is no longer spreading at a steady rate, stressing that it would be impossible to stop the spread of the fever unless there is an improvement in tracking the paths of infection in all parts of the communities and isolating new patients immediately.
The World Health Organization has repeatedly said that there are a large number of cases of undeclared in the three countries most affected -oha Liberia, Guinea and Saraleon- Understanding the size and frequency of outbreaks of the virus are important for the success of efforts to eradicate it.
Misleading data
He added that Aillward published data about the disease may also be misleading because the number of known cases of death is less than half the injuries which gives the wrong impression, explaining that the actual death rate higher and up to about 70%.
Ebola infections exceeded the 8900 (European)
Still a lot of people do not report cases of suspected infection in Baapola and continue to treat the injured at home in Sierra Leone, where health officials said it was the discovery of 18 bodies suspected to be infected with the Ebola virus last week in the area Ajabindembo near Freetown.
He warned Anthony Banbury head of the United Nations Mission in charge of the coordination of emergency response to the epidemic of Ebola, that the world is going to lose the battle against the epidemic, he is unable to stop its spread, during a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the spread of the virus.
An unprecedented situation
Banbury said, that "if we won the Ebola peoples of the United Nations will lose a lot. Ebola either have to stop now, or be faced with an unprecedented situation do not have a plan about it."
According to the latest WHO expectations that talked about five to ten thousand new cases a week Baapola in West Africa as of December / December next, adding that this means they will need to seven thousand beds in treatment centers, but this date will not possess, according to expectations only about 4,300 beds.
Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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Announced workers in the health sector in Liberia on Monday their strike to demand additional financial allocations because of their work in the field of risk due to the care of patients with Ebola epidemic, which has killed dozens of their colleagues. The Reuters news agency said that many of the health sector workers ignored the strike call, though the majority of hospitals and clinics remained open as Official sources said the relief.
The Director of the medical staff at a hospital in the capital, Monrovia Island, who with a capacity of 150 Srira- The staff decided to come to work after the public asked them to do so. Adding that they collectively agreed to return to work.
On the other hand, said the Secretary-General of the National Union of Health Workers in Liberia George Williams said the government pressured the workers through shame them and make them money. Accusing President Ellen Johnson Sarleaf to go to several centers for the treatment of Ebola and provide money for workers, also said it had asked "who are deemed non-Liberian to raise their hands if they want to participate in the strike."
The communications minister said the Liberian Lewis Brown said President and distributed food and money and grants for health workers to show the extent of her gratitude for their efforts and not to block the strike.
The most serious threat
The strike call came at a time when it warned the World Health Organization that the Ebola crisis is the most serious threat to public health witnessed by contemporary stage. There are fears that the strike leads to aggravation of the already grim situation of Ebola in Liberia.
He died about a hundred of health workers in Liberia because of Ebola. And demanding union workers in government health risks and increase fees reset two of its officials were dismissed from their jobs after the call to strike for two weeks last February.
Risk
The government has promised to pay for nurses, doctors and paramedical staff in hospitals, regular $ 300 per month fee risk, while scheduled to get all of the works in the processing units and the Ebola virus on the $ 450 to $ 500. It was scheduled to be start paying fees in September / September last, but it has not been paid yet.
The health minister said the Liberian Walter Guinajala The health workers will receive adequate benefits, but has ruled out re-officials Monday to work, threatening to sack workers who join the strike.
Guinajala warned that workers "who insist on the return of officials before returning to work, they should stay at home forever."
Said Hospital in Leipzig, Germany, on Tuesday that an official with the United Nations was medically treating him, died of Ebola virus, which wounded him during his work in Liberia.
The hospital said "fever Ebola patient died during the night at St George Hospital in Leipzig, despite intensive medical procedures and maximum efforts made by the medical team, has died of an employee of the United Nations, aged 56 years, a serious contagious disease."
The medical officer who did not want his name has reached Germany last week, the third patient treated Ebola in the country.
