On the 12/06/14 Senesie Jannie Tarawally wrote: In a crisis like this, provision of timely information aimed at combating the inevitable health menace among many other things, is an important function of a public health strategy. Hence, inadequate tracking techniques in the public health sector can lead to huge health insecurity, and hence endanger national security, etc. This was exactly what the government should have done. Instead president Koromas senior officials were preoccupied in making nuisances of themselves and clearly demonstrating that this government is recklessly sitting on a time bomb. As Josephine Koroma said: So, if you have a President who cannot control his own immediate staff at State House from abusing each other on social media and newspapers, and a President who cannot reprimand his Heath Minister for such incompetence or better still take responsibility for such catastrophic failure of leadership, then our suffering people can only brace up. Our nation cries for help. President Koroma, please tap into the abundant human resources at your disposal. Look beyond your family circle or ethnic or regional groupings. 67 days later, Ebola continues to have an impact on Sierra Leone in many ways. Economically speaking, many businesses have lost revenue because of the amount of deaths taking place due to ebola. Some hospitals cannot afford to have sanitized tools which becomes a problem when working with ebola patients because any bodily fluid passed from person to person can spread the disease. This makes it easy for healthcare and lab workers to catch the disease since they are handling ebola diagnosed fluids. Once someone is diagnosed, the disease kills quickly and there is no cure, most likely causing death of some doctors. What we need is to encourage international, national and local campaigns for public education. Public education campaigns are a series of efforts designed to inform an audience about a specific issue. The main purpose of a public education campaign is to change behaviour. To do that is a significant challenge, especially to entities such as Sierra Leone institutions that are often limited in funds and staffing. The Health Sector in Sierra Leone is in a state of flux. The civil war apparently destroyed over 70% of all health facilities. Services are yet to be fully restored to many parts of the country. There is no more important public service in Sierra Leone than health. You only have to go to a hospital to be reminded of its urgency and capacities to change lives. With the experience some of us have got here, we would be a tremendous help to our country. Health care is about preserving and enhancing life, about saving loved ones, about giving hope when people need it most. Just as it is vital to individuals, it is also vital to a society. Through affecting people’s abilities to lead their lives, it underpins government, the economy and all social structures. It is particularly important in Sierra Leone for two reasons. Firstly, our country’s population is considered the most vulnerable to ill health in the world, with particularly high infant child and maternity rates. Secondly, civil unrest is born of discontent and people continually justified their insurgency on the failure of successive governments to provide the country with adequate and just social services. Therefore, the health sector is crucial both in Sierra Leone’s positive development and the maintenance of peace. This was what a bereaved family told a relative some 60 days ago: Talking to one of my relatives yesterday he said Ebola is worst than the Civil war as it confines us to one place where as with the war, we were able to escape to Liberia or Guinea. Worst of all, I was informed also yesterday that it is spreading to Kenema with tendency of affecting other places as I predicted last. May the Lord all mighty contain it---AMEN.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:47:17 +0000
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