The Minister went further to say that in preparedness for the three days Ose to Ose talk the emergency operation centre in collaboration with its partners has completed the training of the national supervisors for the three days. Training of the district supervisors has commenced and has completed yesterday while cascading training of national and districts supervisors to the bulk of the 21,000 volunteers will start today at local level.
The Minister added that in response, the EOC has expanded the number of holding centres and trained more staff to mann them as well as increased logistical support at district level to enable local authorities to adequately respond to the anticipated spike in EVD suspected cases.
He also added that there is an increased level of compliance with government policy to report all cases of deaths for certificate before burial thus the increased demand on the burial team to respond to dead bodies. In response government has increased the number of burial teams in Freetown to nine from four. The burial team coordinator has trained 26 dispatch riders to respond and collect samples from bodies for same day testing and provided eighteen burial vehicles to the Western Area teams where the demand for burial is most prevalent.... http://awoko.org/2014/09/16/sierra-leone-news-ose-to-ose-ebola-talk15-20-surge-of-cases-expected/
