APC: BEWARE OF EBOLA CRISIS!!!! With our country on its knees; total economic disaster, thousands of people dead, thousands of people hungry. No electricity or running water in nearly every part of the country. No jobs, no healthcare and no hope for many of our citizens. I struggle to see how the President is doing a good job..... Is this the best we can do? Do we not deserve better than this APC Government and its bloody EBOLA legacy??? Can we win this War against EBOLA? Yes! But not if we keep doing the same things over and over again. We keep losing if our government is more interested in protecting its image than telling us the truth. We keep losing when those paid/elected to do their jobs prefer to blame us than take responsibility. We will start winning this War from the moment our Government speaks with honesty about: The scale of the task at hand How long our misery is likely to last Where is our National Strategy? Where is our Crisis Management Team? How effective is current tracing, monitoring and surveillance? How many qualified healthcare experts do we have on the ground? How many do we need? What is our governments message to the world? The anger has gone, the frustration stifled and what remains is the weary resignation.....After all, the Gods are not to blame. It is my fault, and yours......perhaps we didnt do enough. Perhaps we ought to be nicer to our leaders; praise them a bit more. Give them more awards and trophies. Who knows, it might just be the incentive they need to learn the art of competence. ..... Few weeks ago, Dr Sylvia Blyden wrote: Something very unique about Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Guinea & Sierra Leone. When you dish out lies about this epidemic, it has an ability of forcing the TRUTH to eventually come out. You can lie and make propaganda to cover-up and you know something? Ebola will allow you to lie - but only for a while! It eventually rears its ugly head waving a flag of truth about just how nasty it really has been thus far. The truth is that an Ebola epidemic does not encourage lies. The sooner we realise this, the better chance we have to save our country from the hands of this terrible plague. Fighting Ebola with lies is futile because Ebola loves to disgrace liars. The international communities have expose this failed government by making official what was already established on the ground. According to New York Times: Ebola is spreading at the rate of five new cases every hour in Sierra Leone according to new figures released as world leaders and experts on disease control gathered in London for an international conference on the outbreak. The figures from Save the Children showed there were 765 new cases last week in the west African country alone, but only 327 hospital beds to treat infected patients. It warned that the “terrifying rate” of the spread of the disease was outstripping medical supplies and threatened a breakdown of Sierra Leone’s already fragile health system. The rate of spread of the deadly virus is projected to double to 10 people every hour in the country before the end of October, Save the Children pointed out. The consequences in places like Makeni, one of Sierra Leone’s largest cities, have been devastating. “The whole country has been hit by something for which it was not ready,” said Dr. Amara Jambai, director of prevention and control at Sierra Leone’s health ministry. Bombali, the district that includes this city, went from one confirmed case on Aug. 15 to more than 190 this weekend, with dozens more suspected. In a sign of how quickly the disease has spread, at least six dozen new cases have been confirmed in the district in the past few days alone, health officials said. The government put this district, 120 miles northeast of the capital, Freetown, under quarantine late last week, making official what was already established on the ground. Ebola patients are dying under trees at holding centers or in foul-smelling hospital wards surrounded by pools of infectious waste, cared for as best they can by lightly trained and minimally protected nurses, some wearing merely bluejeans. “There’s no training for the staff here,” said Dr. Mohammed Bah, the director of the government hospital here. “The training is just PowerPoint. It is very difficult to manage Ebola here.” But little of that help has reached this city. The dead, the gravely ill, those who are vomiting or have diarrhea, are placed among patients who have not yet been confirmed as Ebola victims — there is not even a laboratory here to test them. At one of the three holding centers in Makeni, dazed Ebola patients linger outside, close to health workers and soldiers guarding them. The risk of infection is high, the precautions minimal. Patients are kept at the holding centers, receiving a minimum of care, until space opens up at a distant treatment center. “We encourage them not to have contact with body fluids,” said the district medical officer, Dr. Tom Sesay. There is no Ebola treatment center here and the patients, some of them critically ill, must be taken eight hours over bad dirt roads to the one operated by Doctors Without Borders in Kailahun — that is, when space is available there. Some die on the way. At least 90 people already have died in the district, health officials say — a figure far in excess of what the government in the capital has reported for Bombali. Yet the World Health Organization and others are still relying on Sierra Leone government statistics that appear to seriously undercount the number of victims. Outside the district medical officer’s headquarters at the edge of Makeni — a mining hub in better days — ambulances race off constantly for new bodies. Reports of new cases poured in all weekend. “We’re fighting to see how we can control it,” Dr. Sesay said. “But we’re not being helped by the fact that we have nowhere to take our patients.” The survival rate in Bombali district is “low,” Dr. Sesay noted. Indeed, the holding centers appear to be little more than stiflingly hot places to die. At one of the three in Makeni, known as the “Arab Hospital” because it was built with money from Gulf states, five had died overnight and into the morning one day last week; four more were expected to go by that night. Blamas Finest, The Man Who Conjures Something Out Of Nothing!!!
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:04:06 +0000
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