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Saturday, June 28, 2014

The committee against hemorrhagic fever clarifies the "out of control" Médecins Sans Frontières

To the press on Saturday, the National Committee against the Ebola virus had to react to the latest communications Médecins Sans Frontières. No contradiction. But details, says Dr. Sakoba Keita, Division Prevention and Fight against Disease Guinean Ministry of Health, the expression "out of control" used by Médecins Sans Frontières is purely technical. "This is an epidemiological term," said Dr. Sakoba Keita.
 

According Sakoba Keita, "out of control" is mostly used due to the fact that the health control measures are not implemented in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the two neighboring countries affected by the disease. "First, these two countries do not have a treatment center. Secondly, contact tracing is not as well organized as is the case in Guinea, "said Sakoba Keita. Adding that patients from other countries leave their country to come to seek treatment Gueckedou. "In our treatment center Gueckedou, 30% of patients are Sierra Leoneans," said Sakoba Keita.
 
Marc Poncin, national coordinator of Ebola Emergency Doctors Without Borders, also returned on about his institution. According to him, "out of control" first to the three countries -. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but especially when we talk about "an epidemic out of control", we talk about the rapid spread to the other two countries in which control measures are not effective today. "

By providing this clarification, Marc Poncin called to make a distinction between the case in Guinea and those in the other two countries. Guinea, according Poncin, the country is well organized to cope with the epidemic. In addition, partners are deployed and the Ministry of Health has developed real expertise to lead the response. This is not the case in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
 
Poncin said he was not worried by the situation in Guinea. But it is the two neighbors who care, and which raise the threat to Guinea. "Although households in Guinea is cleaned, it may at any time someone from Sierra Leone and Liberia that will bring the disease in Guinea ... It is on this that our Director of Operations is intended to alert the community International and ministries of health in the area, "said Poncin.
 
The National Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières reported that the alert has even begun to bear fruit with the next organization in Accra a meeting of Health Ministers of ECOWAS. "We need to organize, but we must mobilize many resources, "said Marc Poncin.  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fguineenews.org%2F2014%2F06%2Fle-comite-de-lutte-contre-la-fievre-hemorragique-clarifie-le-hors-de-controle-de-medecins-sans-frontieres%2F%3Futm_source%3DGuinee1%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter