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Friday, September 21, 2012

Outbreak of Ebola Isiro: people reluctant to get tested


The inhabitants of Isiro, in Eastern Province, more than 500 km from Kisangani, increasingly refuse to submit to the taking of blood samples of suspected contamination Ebola virus.Civil society expressed concern that the observed resistance including Bede, a town about ten kilometers from Isiro.
This town residents fear losing all goods, goods that the patient died from hemorrhage of Ebola are totally burned. They demand to be compensated before.
Commissions social mobilization and psychosocial fight against this disease undertake to intensify raids on land to raise public awareness.  http://radiookapi.net/en-bref/2012/09/21/epidemie-debola-isiro-les-habitants-reticents-se-soumettre-au-depistage/