| By Augustine Samba & Jeneba V. Kabba Aug 29, 2014, 17:12 |
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The
Town of Koindu in the Kissi Teng Chiefdom Kailahun District, Chief
Moses Foryoh who doubles as Bursar of the Kissi Bendu Secondary School,
on Thursday 28th August 2014 died at the Kaiya
Ebola Isolation Center in Koindu. The death of the chief has created
panic and standstill in the Koindu Township and its environs according
to sources. Relatives of the deceased told our reporters that he just
collapsed last Wednesday and was taken to the isolation center for
medical examinations.
“He did not complain of any sickness, he fell down just after bath and as we rushed to help him the medical personnel advised us not to touch him and was taken to the isolation center” our source revealed.
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| Chief Moses Foryoh popularly known as ‘American’ |
Nearly
ninety residents including two local authorities in Kissi Teng Chiefdom
alone have died since the outbreak of the Ebola disease in May this
year. BBC Focus on Africa last evening quoted World Health Organization
(WHO) as saying about twenty thousand people may likely contact the
Ebola Disease before it will be contained in Liberia, Sierra Leone and
Guinea. Over three thousand people have already been infected and nearly
fifteen hundred people have died in the three countries.
Kissi
Teng Chiefdom in Sierra Leone shares borders with Guinea and Liberia
around where the Ebola outbreak was first detected in the country. Few
weeks ago, residents of Kissi Teng told this newspaper that the Ebola
crisis was relative calm and according to them nobody was infected with
the virus for quiet some weeks.
However,
as recently as three weeks, the community that was calm has lost its
Local Councilor and some other residents including the Town Chief. http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200526098.shtml