By Joseph Lamin Kamara
Western African College of Nursing, Sierra Leone chapter, has convened a seminar on the spread of Ebola and its treatment at the Cathedral House on Gloucester Street in Freetown.
The event started around 9am with a march past, through Siaka Stevens Street, from the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital and attracted nurses in their hundreds who distributed brochures, displayed banners and used blaring speakers to send out Ebola prevention messages.
Sister Mary Fullah, a staff at the reproductive and family planning unit of PCMH, told Politico that the event was geared towards training nurses on the treatment of Ebola patients. She said it was also meant to tell Sierra Leoneans that the fatal haemorrhagic fever was real.
“Ebola is real, and devastating. We want the entire populace to know that Ebola is indeed real. That’s why we have staged the march past to sensitise the public and then train our staff and teach them preventive measures,” Fullah said.
She added that the event was an effort to join the ministry of health and sanitation and other development partners in the fight against Ebola.
The seminar was graced by the chairperson of the Sierra Leone chapter, Doctor Juan Shepherd, president of the parent chapter Amelia Garber and other dignitaries.
(C) Politico 15/07/14
