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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Ebola: MSF sends a response team to urgent Lokolia



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The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is sending a team of emergency intervention to Lokolia, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak on August 27th. Nathalie Gielen, coordinator of MSF / Kinshasa, told Radio Okapi that the team will try to isolate the suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola. It states that MSF team is already there. It was she who had made the samples sent for analysis to Kinshasa and have confirmed the Ebola virus.
"This is a team that made the assessment of the situation for a week and that made samples that were then sent for analysis. This team is always on hand and expects the rest of the team leaving tomorrow, "says Nathalie Gielen.
Another team of 17 people will join the first group to Lokolia "to start the activities of management."
The coordinator of MSF / Kinshasa says that this team brings "everything needed for water equipment, hygiene and sanitation."
"We also send medicines to relieve patients and we send all necessary personnel, doctors, nurses, logisticians, to be able to help the population affected by this population," she added... https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://radiookapi.net/actualite/2014/08/27/ebola-msf-depeche-une-equipe-dintervention-urgente-lokolia/&usg=ALkJrhjY2A2fg8AIBQbEHoJOKIZ5FSIrxg