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Saturday, 11 July 2015

Guinea Records 16 New Ebola Cases

The Guinea National Ebola Coordination Centre has
confirmed that 18 out of the 22 people hospitalised
presently in the treatment centres have tested
positive to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
According to Dr. Sakoba Kéïta, head of the Ebola
Coordination Committee, who said the epicentres
of the Ebola disease remained in Conakry, the
activities in several localities and the involvement
of youths in anti-Ebola committees, contributed
largely to the reduction of new cases.
Keita expressed the determination of the
government to eradicate the deadly disease, which
has left 2,000 dead out of 3,000 reported cases.
Guinea has agreed to distribute food and money to
the families suspected or affected by the Ebola
disease during the 21 days of quarantine.
The World Health Organisation said Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone, which were the worst hit by EVD,
reported thousands dead. The three countries have
increased their meetings recently within the
framework of the Mano River Union, a common
entity to make common decisions in the
perspective to eradicate Ebola. The Guinean
government has taken several measures aimed at
the eradication of the disease.
However, those measures have not achieved the
desired results due to the stubbornness of
populations in several regions where medical
teams were banned from operating, such as the
Low Guinea region, where local populations
attacked, injured or killed medical staff deployed
on the ground because they claimed they did not
believe in the existence of the disease. President
Alpha Condé left Conakry on Tuesday for New
York, with his counterparts Dr Ernest Baï Koroma
of Sierra Leone and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia
to meet with development partners. They
discussed the ways and means to revive the
economy of the three countries, estimated at 8$
billion. The Guinean national health authorities
recently limited entry to the two main hospitals of
the capital Donka and Ignace Deen, where security
has been bolstered. It will be recalled that 5 were confirmed Ebola positive in Liberia some days back.

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