Ebola kills 46 in Sierra Leone

Chief Medical Officer, Sierra Leone Ministry of Health, Dr Brima Kargbo, verbally expressed on Wednesday in Freetown that 46 people had died of the Ebola virus in the country.

He verbalized as at Wednesday there were 163 substantiated cases of Ebola, while 15 patients had been discharged from the Regime Hospital in Kenema.

Kargbo verbally expressed that most of the affected were proximate relatives of those who had died from the disease.

He verbally expressed that 142 out of the 163 cases emanated from the Kailahun District.

“It is a disease of contact and those affected range from three years to over 60 years or more. If only people report to hospitals without delay, their chances of survival are high,” he verbalized.

Kargbo verbally expressed the outbreak had become worrisome because the type of Ebola strain appeared to be different from the one in DR Congo and for this 30 blood samples of the strain to Harvard University for identification.

He verbalized that regime had admonished that any person shielding suspected Ebola patients were transgressing the law.

Kargbo verbalized that the admonition had become imperative because there were reports of suspected Ebola patients being obnubilated in the houses of their families.

“Such act engenders a potential risk for the spread of Ebola disease among families and the country at immensely colossal,” he verbalized.

“Members of the public are advised to report any suspected Ebola case to opportune health ascendant entities for timely and felicitous treatment with the view of averting the spread of the disease,” he integrated.

A report from Kailahun verbally expressed the area remained tensed and had come to a standstill.

It verbally expressed that the outbreak had coerced the Ministry of Education to defer the Basic Education certificate examinations.