Thursday, March 19, 2015

Ebola Emergency in Sierra Leone for Controlling Epidemic Disease

Sierra Leone has been main hit of Ebola virus since last year. It costed more than ten thousand lives and 26000 victims with potential infections of virus. National Ebola Response center said that emergency situations are essential to test masses around country. A three day emergency will be effective from next week. It will effect approximately 2.5 million people.


Government of Sierra Leone has implemented emergency situation to lock down a certain area for testing and separating infected people. It proved much helpful. Although these circumstance were highly criticized by opposition parties but assisted much in covering up the epidemic disease.

International community helped much to control Ebola. Boston based volunteers organization has been working since year to assist local health workers. They also caught infections of deadly Ebola and got their workers evacuated. UK was also on front line.

The situation is getting worse. International standards for patients of Sierra Leone and America or Europe has different set of standards. It has become a region of experimenting new vaccines and drugs before putting on shelve.

In last week until March 15, fifty five new patients got registered with positive signs of Ebola. Area lock-down will be effective from March 27 to March 29. Capital of country FreeTown will be part of emergency region along with western side.

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