Sierra Leone’s most popular and influential worldwide gospel female musician, Millicent Rhodes, in a recent interview with this press pleads with governments and NGOs stating that the issue of trauma and poverty caused by the outbreak of the Ebola virus to people living in the three (3) Mano River Union countries Guinea, Sierra Leone ad Liberia is serious and that though we may be looking at the scourge getting over, we should double our efforts and bring a final end to the deadly virus.
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OB Sisay, Director of the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC), said: “This does not mean Sierra Leone is suddenly Ebola free”.
The greater than 500 residents of the northern village of Massessebeh gathered within the streets, singing and waving palm branches, after Koroma reduce a bit of tape used as a cordon. “We should not go back to doing the wrong things”, he warned and encouraged all to sustain efforts until the last case is discharged from the treatment center.
The 8-month epidemic has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa.
Neighboring Liberia, which has the very best demise toll from the epidemic, has no present cases.
Millicent Rhodes further said that the children deserve the fullest of love and care and for this reason among others she decided to use the gospel musical trend to preach to the people to love and to care for all especially the children. The baby was born in a health facility outside the village.
Ramatu Sankoh, 20, is one of three women who had to give birth in isolation during the quarantine.
Although Tonkolili had not seen a case of Ebola for more than 150 days, WHO said the Government, WHO and other UN and worldwide partners sent a rapid response team into the district and worked with the village chief and village taskforce to identify and monitor everyone who had been in contact with the virus.
Delivering a short statement during the visit, President Koroma told the people of Kambia that although they have done tremendously well to fend off the virus from the district, Ebola has not been completely eradicated from the country.
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According to the UN health agency, Sierra Leone is now down to a single chain of transmission, which started in Freetown but sparked a cluster of cases in the district of Tonkolili in the northern region of the country.
