Mon, July 7th 2014, 4:59
Marc Poncin, Coordinator activities Médecins
Sans Frontières against the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, said Saturday
that prevents them from working in Conakry and in several localities of
the country.
He
said that it is especially Gueckedou, the epicenter of the epidemic,
that people are hostile to health workers, including those of Doctors
Without Borders. "20 villages Gueckedou deny access to health actors" said Marc Poncin. "But that is not all. This is a part of the population," he said.
Coordinator
for the hostility to health actors means that there are people who are
not yet convinced of the existence of the disease.
Given the situation, Marc Poncin reassured that the institution will not give in to discouragement. Rather, it will continue the sensitization to convince the skeptics. In this work, Doctors Without Borders calls for the support of the Guinean authorities to access populations. "We discussed it with the authority to have access to people," said Marc Poncin which listed some four areas of the country where the health players are not welcome among some citizens. Among these cities, the capital Conakry, Boffa and Gueckedou.
Medical personnel wipe hostility as they are among the first victims of the disease. Twenty of them died trying to save lives.
The
epidemic now totals 194 deaths of 292 confirmed cases, according to the
latest statistics provided by the National Committee for response. However, treatment centers have successfully cured 98 patients.
