25-09-2014
by RFI
Because of the Ebola outbreak, no vehicle can enter or leave the town of Kenema without evidence. Given the increasing number of cases of hemorrhagic fever since May, this town 300 km from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, has been quarantined by the authorities in August. A hospital in Kenema, caregivers are on the front line.
Health professionals Kenema have paid the heaviest price in Sierra Leone. At the beginning of the epidemic, the hospital has lost 39 of its nursing victims of the Ebola virus. The epidemic has spread due to lack of equipment and especially sanitary precautions were not implemented because the disease had not yet been identified.
In recent weeks, thanks to better management of patients, the situation is again controllable. But the authorities decided not to lift the quarantine Kenema.
A team of UNICEF is present in the city and found that a third of patients with Ebola are children. Higher than the national average figures. UNICEF staff and the hospital staff involved including orphans who lost their parents hemorrhagic fever. Children because of the quarantine are stranded in the hospital grounds. So caregivers to take care of before they are placed in foster homes, often out of Kenema.
by RFI
Because of the Ebola outbreak, no vehicle can enter or leave the town of Kenema without evidence. Given the increasing number of cases of hemorrhagic fever since May, this town 300 km from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, has been quarantined by the authorities in August. A hospital in Kenema, caregivers are on the front line.
Health professionals Kenema have paid the heaviest price in Sierra Leone. At the beginning of the epidemic, the hospital has lost 39 of its nursing victims of the Ebola virus. The epidemic has spread due to lack of equipment and especially sanitary precautions were not implemented because the disease had not yet been identified.
In recent weeks, thanks to better management of patients, the situation is again controllable. But the authorities decided not to lift the quarantine Kenema.
A team of UNICEF is present in the city and found that a third of patients with Ebola are children. Higher than the national average figures. UNICEF staff and the hospital staff involved including orphans who lost their parents hemorrhagic fever. Children because of the quarantine are stranded in the hospital grounds. So caregivers to take care of before they are placed in foster homes, often out of Kenema.
