EBOLA-Sierra Leone:- (18th December,2014) Fears of a sharp increase in cases mean even those who have not died from the disease are being buried in Ebola graveyards. ****************************************************************** Sierra Leone, caught in the grip of the Ebola crisis, is bracing itself for a sharp increase in cases of the killer disease over the Christmas period. The Government is so worried about the situation it has outlawed any seasonal public celebrations and soldiers are being put on the streets to make sure no one disobeys the directive. Eunice Peacock, of the District Ebola Response Centre (DERC), admits they are running to catch up with the rate of the spread of the disease and would not be drawn on when it would be brought under control. One of the biggest problems is a refusal by what some claim is up to 80% of the population, a figure disputed by the government, to even acknowledge Ebola is real. One of the scores of operators at the UK-funded 117 Ebola telephone (Isha-MacRae) reporting line said many of the calls she takes are pranks or abusive. They will use abusive language on you, theyll say Ebola is lie, lie, youre just taking money, most of them that is what they say, she said. They dont believe. Most of the people they dont believe in the Ebola stuff. The genuine calls get pushed on to the DERC where they are followed up either as live cases or burials. Even those who have not died from the virus are collected and treated as if they had the disease, which means getting accurate figures for the number of Ebola deaths is difficult.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:36:41 +0000
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