By Mohamed Vandi
Survivors of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease in the eastern district of tow of Kenema, with cumulative confirmed cases of 490 as at 5 October, have formed an association to promote their interests.
The founder of “Ebola Survivors’ Association”, Bai Bai Kamara, said the initiative was to cater for the welfare of all discharged Ebola survivors who “are being marginalized and neglected.”
He claimed that “most of the survivors are being stigmatised, traumatised and frustrated and are not getting what is due them. There is need for an organisation to protect their interests so that they feel part of the society,” he said, adding that his wife, who also survived the disease,had inspired him to form the organisation. He called on other organisations to support the survivors.
Meanwhile, controversy ensued after some of the survivors demanded that the founder must handover the association to them since he was not a survivor.
Reacting, Mr Kamara said he would succumb to the demand because it was his own initiative and that his wife was a survivor.
© Politico 07/11/14
