FN-systemet er for alvor ved at geare op til et samlet angreb på “Dødens fortrop” – topfolk på besøg i Sierra Leone i Vestafrika og FNs Økonomiske Kommission for Afrika (ECA) opfordrer til gældslettelse for de tre værst ramte land – Sierra Leone, Guinea og Liberia.
FREETOWN, 13 December 2014 (UN News Service): Amid a spike (brat stigning) in Ebola transmission rates in Sierra Leone, the United Nations envoy coordinating the massive global crisis response has travelled to the West African nation to help implement a surge in efforts to contain the outbreak.
“We need to put in place a big surge (fremstød) to get those case numbers down, and we have been working on implementing that surge in the last week,” Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), said following his two-day visit to the country’s capital, Freetown, from 11 to 12 December.
“I came to see how that is going, how the preparations are and to see what more UNMEER can do,” he added.
FNs Økonomiske Kommisson for Afrika opfordrede til gældslettelse – se http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=49612#.VI9bbWV1T4s
With some 8,069 cases, Sierra Leone is now the worst-affected country in West Africa, according to UNMEER’s latest data. Together, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have so far registered over 18,000 cases of Ebola, including more than 6,300 deaths.
The increasingly high transmission rates in Sierra Leone were reported in recent weeks, leading the Government of Sierra Leone and UNMEER to mount a surge response.
Earlier in the week, the UN Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro, also noted that Sierra Leone had become an “area of concern” due to the high levels of viral transmission and urged “a much more intense response.”
He pointed out that some of the most experienced Ebola responders in the world were currently working in that area, together with UNMEER’s “Western Area Surge team,” the Government, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to ensure there were enough beds and burial teams.
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