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Tuesday 4 November 2014
Ebola Outbreak: Sierra Leonean Patients Escape Quarantine To Find Food
Aid workers in Sierra Leone have raised the
alarm that people infected with Ebola are
exposing others to the disease due to hunger.
The Ebola risk in Sierra Leone is being
heightened further as thousands of patients are
said to have broken quarantine in an attempt to
find food.
Aid workers in the country have raised the alarm
that infected people are exposing others to the
disease due to hunger.
The aid agencies say that the patients are forced
to violate the quarantine because supplies are
not reaching them, AP reports.
Large areas of Sierra Leone have been sealed off
and travel has been restricted in some areas
essentially cutting off the inhabitants.
The task of getting food and other services to the
patients has been assigned to the country’s
government, with help from the U.N.'s World
Food Program, but Jeanne Kamara, the director
of charity group, Christian Aid says that many
"nooks and crannies" in the country that are
being missed.
Kamara added:
“This is a huge concern. People infected with
Ebola are desperately searching for food and are
in turn exposing others to the disease.”
“They are jostling with people in the market and
infecting others through bodily contact. We
urgently have to provide food to those who need
it to prevent the risk of further spread,” she said.
Ebola has claimed almost 5000 lives in West Africa
with Sierra Leone and Liberia contributing the
most to the casualty figure.
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