By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
Presidential Adviser on health says people who are declared to have survived the Ebola virus should abstain from having sex for three months after the declaration.
Yabom Thaslim Sesay Koroma, who was speaking at the Ebola treatment centre at Hastings where 33 more survivors had been discharged, warned that the disease could remain in human bodies for that long even after surviving the attack.
“Let us continue to listen to the directives of the health professionals until government declares the country Ebola-free”, she said.
Deputy minister of health and sanitation, Madina Rahman, cautioned survivors to adhere to warnings by health workers and abstain from sex until such a time when it was safe.
She commended work at the Hastings Ebola treatment centre, saying that “Sierra Leoneans can do it better if the enabling environment is provided by government.” Rahman said government would continue to give the required resources “until the Ebola Virus Disease is eradicated in Sierra Leone.”
Coordinator of the centre, Dr.Santigie Sesay, said that that was the second set of survivors they had discharged since September 2014 when the centre was established at the Hastings Police Training School.
Dr. Sesay said the first number of survivors was 49 and that in total they had admitted 231 patients, among them 72 had died while 79 survived. He said they had 70 patients at the moment, adding that all their health workers were Sierra Leoneans and that none of them had contracted the disease.
(C) Politico 21/10/14
