Isiro: the crisis committee epidemics moves against Ebola

  Last Update August 18, 2012 at 7:14

Isiro met this Saturday, August 18, the Crisis Committee epidemics Isiro District in Eastern Province has taken measures to restrict the spread of Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The population should not shake hands or be in contact with someone with this disease. So far, Ebola has killed six people. These latest figures revealed by the Chief Medical Officer of Health District interim, Dr. Jacques Gumbaluka, revise down those Friday who reported seven deaths.
Declared epidemic in DRC Friday, August 17, the Ebola haemorrhagic fever has killed six of the ten suspects registered. For now, few patients are in isolation and other supervision, as stated by the Chief Medical Officer of Health District ad interim:
"Currently, we have two patients in isolation, etquarante-four "44"contacts under surveillance. Of these suspects, there are eleven health professionals and thirty-three family members of suspected cases. " While these patients are followed, the crisis committee epidemics Isiro District in Eastern Province has taken measures at the community level:
■ do not shake hands;
■ Do not touch any animal found dead in the forest;
■ Do not handle the meat;
■ Do not touch unprotected vomit, blood, stool from a patient with Ebola or has been unsuccessful;
■ Do not sleep with the patient from the Ebola;
■ not be left unprotected by a patient with Ebola;
■ Do not touch or handle the clothing and other contaminated objects;
■ Do not touch and / or washing the corpses;
■ be injected under conditions of protection set by the standards in such circumstances.
On Friday, the Minister of Public Health, Felix Kabange Numbi, has invited the public to observe measures of individual and collective hygiene. He recalled that to date there is no drug or vaccine to fight against this epidemic. Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Uganda has resurfaced at the beginning of July. One that has been identified in the health area is the type of Isiro "Mbudibugio".
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