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Ebola: West African Health Ministers hold emergency meeting in Ghana
Soon after the outbreak was identified in Guinea, it appeared just across the border in neighboring Liberia on March 30, the country has been the least hit with just 63 cases.
The country’s Health Ministry has set up treatment centers and started a public service campaign to slow the spread of the disease, including training health professionals to use protective clothing while forbidding hospitals to turn away patients with Ebola symptoms. They also have forbidden possible victims to be buried without being first tested and issued a death certificate to ensure that there is proper reporting of who has been affected by the disease and who they have been in contact with.
Ebola was identified in Sierra Leone in late May just as it had been hoped the outbreak in Guinea and Liberia was winding down. It has since spread to at least two districts with 176 cases claiming at least 46 lives.
Like the other countries, Sierra Leone formed a national task force with daily meetings and set up treatment centers in the affected areas.
Sierra Leone’s Health Ministry has also warned people that sheltering the infected is a crime and lamented that people were escaping from hospitals and hiding.
Source: Associated Press
