A UN envoy Tuesday called for more foreign personnel, treatment centres and beds to be sent to Ebola-affected areas, especially western Sierra Leone and northern Guinea.
David Nabarro, special envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Ebola, told a press conference that more foreign personnel were needed to support governments with Ebola treatment units and holding centers.
“We don’t yet have the full number of functioning treatment centres and places for where people who are ill can be kept away from others, so we are anticipating several hundreds of beds coming on stream in the next few weeks,” Xinhua quoted him as saying.
He said the number of new cases per day was coming down quite rapidly in some parts of the region, particularly in Liberia, outside Monrovia, and also in eastern Sierra Leone, which were incredibly intense transmission zones in August and September.
However, he highlighted the outbreak was still flaming strongly in western Sierra Leone and northern part of Guinea.
In western Sierra Leone, the increased transmission is the reflection of the fact that local community was yet to fully embrace the outbreak and to take action to avoid infection themselves, according to the envoy.
In addition, he attached the importance to maintaining global attention of vigilance because the deadly virus could spread to other countries.
–IANS