Health workers in Liberia are said to be fleeing and returning from
their areas of assignment due to the increasing number of Ebola
patients. Some are said to have died from treating patients infected by
the deadly virus.
Speaking in plenary yesterday at the Capitol Building, Senate’s Committee Chairman on Health, Dr. Peter Coleman disclosed that there were 12 cases of health workers infected by the Ebola Virus- ten of whom have already died; and as a result, trained and professional health workers were leaving their areas of assignment at clinics and hospitals for fear of being infected.
The Grand Kru County Senator noted that the only option to maintain these health workers is for the government to direct sufficient funds to efforts against the deadly virus which has engulfed the sub region and could be uncontrollable for months.
He said the Ministry of Health has proposed the amount of US$1.5 million to combat the epidemic or the population of the country could be in serious danger.
Maryland County Senator H. Dan Morais called on the administration to decide on a national state of emergency- an action that would enable officers of the Armed Forces of Liberia along with health workers to be posted from the Red-light via Gardnerville to the Gabriel Tucker Bridge for inspection and testing to determine carriers of the virus.
The Liberian Senate, through a motion from Lofa County Senator George Tingbeh, agreed that the leaderships of the both House of Representatives and Liberian Senate submit a resolution to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, calling for the immediate provision of the US$1.5 million in order to combat the deadly. On July 1, 2014, a medical practitioner from Uganda, involved with the fight against the spread of the Ebola virus in Liberia, died... http://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12101:health-workers-flee-ebola&catid=46:health&Itemid=60
Speaking in plenary yesterday at the Capitol Building, Senate’s Committee Chairman on Health, Dr. Peter Coleman disclosed that there were 12 cases of health workers infected by the Ebola Virus- ten of whom have already died; and as a result, trained and professional health workers were leaving their areas of assignment at clinics and hospitals for fear of being infected.
The Grand Kru County Senator noted that the only option to maintain these health workers is for the government to direct sufficient funds to efforts against the deadly virus which has engulfed the sub region and could be uncontrollable for months.
He said the Ministry of Health has proposed the amount of US$1.5 million to combat the epidemic or the population of the country could be in serious danger.
Maryland County Senator H. Dan Morais called on the administration to decide on a national state of emergency- an action that would enable officers of the Armed Forces of Liberia along with health workers to be posted from the Red-light via Gardnerville to the Gabriel Tucker Bridge for inspection and testing to determine carriers of the virus.
The Liberian Senate, through a motion from Lofa County Senator George Tingbeh, agreed that the leaderships of the both House of Representatives and Liberian Senate submit a resolution to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, calling for the immediate provision of the US$1.5 million in order to combat the deadly. On July 1, 2014, a medical practitioner from Uganda, involved with the fight against the spread of the Ebola virus in Liberia, died... http://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12101:health-workers-flee-ebola&catid=46:health&Itemid=60
