Ministry of Health
and Sanitation
Emergency
Operations Center (EOC)
Ebola outbreak
update:As of today, 5 August 2014, we have a total of161patients who
havesurvived Ebola Virus Disease and subsequently discharged.
The total number
of new confirmed cases is 15 and total cumulative number confirmed death is
214. The total number of cumulative confirmed cases is 591 with Kailahun 352,
Kenema 201; Kono 1; Kambia 1; Bombali 5; Tonkolili 1; Port Loko 8; Pujehun 2;
Bo 12; Moyamba 1; Bonthe 1; Western Area Urban 6. As of today, Koinadugu
district is the only district that has not registered confirmed cases of Ebola
in Sierra Leone.
The cumulative
number of probable cases is 52 and probable deaths 34 while the total
cumulative number of suspected cases is 68 and suspected death is 5
The Emergency
Operations Center (EOC) wishes to express its sincere thanks and appreciation
to His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma for declaring yesterday,
August 4th 2014 as a National Stay At
Home day, and to
the people of Sierra Leone for answering the President’s call to stay home, reflect,
pray and educate their families on the current Ebola outbreak in the Country.
Thanks to this effort, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and its partners
were able to reach many Sierra Leonean households across the country through
several media engagements and community sensitization.
The EOC also
wishes to inform the general public of the following activities it has
instituted, which will go a long way in helping combat the spread of the
disease in the country:
• Food supplies have commenced in affected
communities and households in the Kailahun District and will follow to other
affected areas.
• The Red Cross has deployed one
treatment center to service the Kenema District. The current Ebola treatment
center at the Kenema Government Hospital Premises will be relocated to this new
treatment center once construction is completed.
• The 117 call center has been
relocated to the Emergency Operations Center at the WHO and staffing has been
increased to cater for the volume of calls currently incoming.
• Additional Contact tracers have been
trained and are being deployed in affected communities and districts across the
country. The general public is advised that these contact tracers are not in
these communities to intimidate or harm them, stop the potential spread of the
disease.
• The General Public is hereby reminded
that minimizing physical contact, avoiding traditional burials of suspected
Ebola dead bodies and hygiene practices such as regular hand washing with soap,
cleaning and disinfecting homes regularly will reduce their chance of becoming
infected. The public is hereby advised to adopt these preventive measures in
addition to other preventive measures from the Ministry of Health and
Sanitation and its partners.
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.com
Mobile:-
+23276913000
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