Ebola:Wauguzi waombwa wasigome Liberia

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Ebola:Wauguzi waombwa wasigome Liberia

Maafisa wa afya nchini Liberia, wanawaomba wauguzi na wasaidizi wao kusitisha mpango wao wa mgomo wa kitaifa huku mlipuko wa Ebola ukiendelea kukithiri nchini humo.

Chama cha kitaifa cha wafanyakazi wa afya, kinataka serikali iwaongeze marupurupu kwa kuhatarisha maisha yao hasa kwa wale wanaowatibu wagonjwa wa Ebola.

Rais wa Marekani Barack Obama, ameamuru hatua zaidi kuchukuliwa za kuhakikisha wauguzi hawapatwi na ugonjwa huo.
Muuguzi mmoja ambaye alikuwa anamtibu mgonjwa wa Ebola yeye mwenyewe aliambukizwa ugonjwa huo.

Naibu waziri wa afya wa Liberia , Tolbert Nyenswah alisema ikiwa mgomo utafanyika sasa hivi utakuwa na athari kubwa kwa walioathirika na pia kuathiri hatua zilizofikiwa hadi sasa katika vita dhidi ya ugonjwa huo.

Serikali inasema kuwa janga la Ebola ni kubwa na ina maana kuwa serikali haiwezi kutimiza ahadi ya kuwalipa pesa zaidi wafanyakazi hao kwa kuhatarisha maisha yao.

Kiwango wanacho lipwa ni dola 500 kila mwezi , pamoja na mshahara wao wa kati ya dola 200 na 300.
Wauguzi hao sasa wanataka kulipwa dola 700 kama marupurupu ya kuhatarisha maisha yao wakiwatibu wagonjwa wa Ebola.
Wafanyakazi hao wa afya, pia wanataka vifaa vya kuwalinda kutokana na maambukizi pamoja na kupewa bima ya afya na serikali.

Wauguzi wengine 95 wamefariki kutokana na Ebola nchini humo.

Liberia ni moja ya nchi zilizoathirika vibaya sana na Ebola.
Zaidi ya watu 4,000 wamefariki kutokana na ugonjwa huo tangu ulipoanza kuwa kero hasa kwa mataifa ya Afrika Magharibi. Mia

Chanzo: BBC

 

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Wakati hali ya ebola ikiendelea kuwa mbaya nchini liberia ambapo hadi sasa kwa mujibu wa shirika la afya duniani WHO wauguzi zaidi ya 90 wameshapoteza maisha yao kutokana na ugonjwa hatari wa ebola, wauguzi wa afya na wasaidizi wao nchini humo watishia mgomo nchi nzima.
Maafisa wa afya nchini Liberia, wanawaomba wauguzi na wasaidizi wao kusitisha mpango wao wa mgomo wa kitaifa huku mlipuko wa Ebola ukiendelea kukithiri nchini humo.

MADAI YAO
Waitaka serikali ya liberia ;
> iwaongezee marupurupu
>iwape bima ya afya, na
>iwapatie vifaa tiba kwa ajili ya kujikinga na maambukizi ya Ebola.

Chanzo: BBC

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Liberian health officials are appealing to nurses and medical assistants not to go ahead with a national strike, as the Ebola epidemic continues.

The National Health Workers Association wants an increase in the monthly risk fee paid to those treating Ebola cases.

In the US, President Barack Obama has directed more steps to be taken to ensure high safety procedures when dealing with suspected Ebola patients.

A health worker treating an Ebola victim has herself caught the virus.

Liberia's Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said a strike would have negative consequences on those suffering from Ebola and would adversely affect progress made so far in the fight against the disease.

The government says the scale of the epidemic means it now cannot afford the risk fee originally agreed.

The risk fee is currently less than $500 a month, on top of basic salaries of between $200-$300. Staff are now seeking a risk fee of $700 a month.

More than 4,000 people have died during the Ebola outbreak

The health workers also want personal protective equipment and insurance.

Ninety-five of their colleagues have so far died from Ebola. Liberia is one of the countries worst affected by the epidemic.

More than 4,000 people have so far died in the outbreak.

A new UN centre to co-ordinate the fight against the epidemic is being set up in Ghana.

UN aid workers and logisticians are being flown in to Accra, the BBC's Mark Doyle reports. Ghana itself has not so far seen any Ebola cases.

Six months after the epidemic began in west Africa there are still only about a quarter of the treatment beds required to tackle it.

Food is now in short supply as markets are disrupted in some parts of the three countries worst affected: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

In Liberia, elections have been postponed because the gathering of people at polling stations would endanger lives.

On Sunday evening, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that a female health worker had tested positive for Ebola in Dallas.

CDC chief Dr Tom Frieden has promised a full inquiry into how the transmission could have occurred.

The CDC investigation, he told reporters, would focus on possible breaches made during two "high-risk procedures", dialysis and respiratory intubation.

The health worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital had been treating Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan, who caught the virus in his native Liberia and died on Wednesday.

She is now on an isolation ward and is said to be in a stable condition.

Dr Frieden said 48 other people who may also have had contact with Duncan were being observed.

Duncan tested positive in Dallas on 30 September, 10 days after arriving on a flight from Monrovia via Brussels.

He had become ill a few days after arriving in the US, and went to the hospital in Dallas with a high fever.

Symptoms of Ebola include fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding. The virus is spread through contact with bodily fluids.

Source: BBC News - Ebola: Liberian health workers plan strike

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Ebola deaths: Confirmed, probable and suspected

Source: WHO


Note: figures have occasionally been revised down as suspected or probable cases are found to be unrelated to Ebola. They do not include one death in the US recorded on 8 October.