The Ministry of Health and Sanitation wishes everyone to know that there has been no confirmed case of Ebola at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (PCMH) and the Ola During Children’s Hospital (Cottage) in Freetown as circulated on the social media by some individuals. All public health facilities have areas referred to as observation units where suspected cases of Ebola are kept until their test results are out. These observation units are nowhere near the normal wards where other patients are kept while undergoing normal treatment and care. The case been referred to was kept in the Observation unit at PCMH while her blood sample was taken to the Kenema Lassa Laboratory for the Ebola test. The test result came out negative and that patient was longer considered suspected Ebola case. The information on the social media purporting a positive Ebola case that escaped from an observation unit at the Cottage Hospital in Freetown is therefore false and unfounded. Ebola Viral Disease Situation Report – Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone For more information please contact – District Health Management Team at District level National level - Directorate of Disease Prevention and Control: dpcsurveillance@gmail Mobile:- +23276913000
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:45:13 +0000
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