The Ivorian health authorities continue to vaccinate against the Ebola virus. During this vaccination day, the authorities focused on a district in Abdijan in Allahkro where the young Guinean passed before being hospitalized.
Allahkro, a slum-like neighborhood, was the focal point of the vaccination campaign. This is where the patient came when she got off the bus. According to testimony, she came to go with her husband. The husband, family and immediate neighbors were vaccinated in isolation and monitored, reports our correspondent in Abidjan, Jean-Luc Aplogan.
The rest of the residents became a target group. Very worried, they spontaneously came to the center installed under a white thatched cottage. This is the case with Yoboué Salomon: “It was fitting that we were vaccinated because Ebola is a deadly disease. Prevention is better than cure. “
Alassane is one of the first to be vaccinated, he leaves the place, reassured: “I’m happy, it does not hurt, I’m happy”
The vaccination team wears disposable clothing and gloves. They register people who want to be vaccinated and get them to sign a consent form. After that, it’s the injection. A few seconds later and the vaccinated person leaves with a yellow book confirming the vaccination.
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The Minister of Health was there. He specified the goals of the press: “The patient stayed here before he was evacuated to the hospital, the goal is to break the contamination chain, prevent the spread of the disease”
The ambition is to vaccinate 2000 people in 3 days. A difficult goal to achieve, but for Professor Eholié, a member of the Monitoring Committee, “if we do not set optimistic goals with deadlines, we will never achieve them. »There are 1300 missing who need to be vaccinated in 24 hours to reach them.
Search for contact matters between Guinea and the Ivory Coast At the same time, a real in-depth investigation is underway over 1500km from Labé in Guinea to Abidjan. This is the road taken by this 18-year-old who traveled with his family to average Guinea and then took the bus to the Ivorian economic capital.
Guinea’s health authorities have almost filled the list of contact matters for the traveler on their land. About fifty people will be quarantined for another 13 days and vaccinated against Ebola. Including family members in Labé, in northern Guinea.
The passengers who accompanied her to Nzerekoré in Forest Guinea, before changing buses to Côte d’Ivoire, are being cared for by the Nzérékoré region. Its governor, Mohamed Gharé, has tightened control over neighboring countries: “From Guinea to Côte d’Ivoire, from Guinea to Liberia, from Guinea to Sierra Leone, you cannot cross the border unless you present their vaccination card or test card. All arrangements have been made. ”
Other contact matters, the passengers who accompanied the Guinean to Abidjan are taken care of by the Ivorian authorities.
The WHO has also classified the risk of Ebola virus at a very high level in Côte d’Ivoire and in neighboring countries. It is not a question of intimidation, explains Professor Georges Alfred Ki-Zerbo, WHO’s representative in Guinea, but of being able to quickly launch all measures to stop the epidemic.
This classification is conservative […] This means that the issue is taken very seriously and that all preventive measures, support, contact follow-up and community involvement exist.
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