Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Ministry of Health and Sanitation PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 9, 2014

Ø  DISCHARGED CASES

·  Total Survived and Released Patients  =  543

Ebola and Our Caregivers

By Jaramenajara and Joseph Joskam

The ongoing Ebola outbreak has prompted many to ask serious questions about whom primarily the horrific disease would strike.

STATEMENT AT THE WORLD BANK ROUND TABLE ON EBOLA ON 9th OCTOBER, 2014

 By Dr Ernest Bai Koroma

President Ernest Bai Koroma

Since the first cases of the disease in Sierra Leone in May, over 2500 of our people have been infected, of which there are a little over 530 survivors.

President Koroma Welcomes Cuban Medics

By State House Communications Unit

President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Wednesday 8th October received the Cuban delegation of One Hundred and Sixty-Five medical (165) staff including doctors and nurses at State House.

PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 8, 2014

Ø  DISCHARGED CASES

·  Total Survived and Released Patients  =  538

UNMEER SRSG Assures Sierra Leone Women

The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of United Nations Mission on Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury accompanied by the Country Representative of UN Women Dr. Mary Okumu  last Friday, 3^rd October, 2014 assured the women of Sierra Leone of UN’s fullest support in the fight against the Ebola virus disease.

“All is not lost” President Koroma Buoys Health Workers

By State House Communications Unit

49) Ebola Survivors Cured by Sierra Leonean Medical staff

At a ceremony organized by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation on Monday 6th October, President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma officially presided over the discharge of forty-nine (49) Ebola survivors treated and cured by an all Sierra Leonean medical staff at the Hastings Treatment Centre.