10-20-2014, 12:30 PM |
حسين سعد
حسين سعد
Registered: 12-09-2013
Total Posts: 599
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Sudan and Ebola virus epidemic by Hussein Sa’ad
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Written by: Hussein Sa’ad The follow-up of Ebola news has increased significantly among Sudanese people after Morocco has withdrawn from hosting next year's Africa Cup of Nations because of fears over the outbreak of the epidemic. Morocco scared of the arrival of hundreds of fans from countries affected by the disease. Sudan had showed its willingness to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations next January, and Sudanese Football Association (SFA) has started its contact with The Confederation of African Football (Caf), but Sudanese Consumers Protection Society has appealed to the Presidency of the Republic, SFA , Caf, and Youth and Sports Ministry to postpone the tournament indefinitely till issuing of medical and scientific statements by the international health bodies affirming shrinking of the epidemic. Last weekend, Sudan’s Cabinet refused to host the African Nations Championship scheduled for next January instead of Morocco. Sudan’s Minister of Health, Bahar Idriss Abu Garda, raveled the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, in the presence of the relevant ministries including youth and sports ministry, decided to refuse hosting the 2015 tournament, pointing out that the Cabinet’s social development sector tasked of Youth and Sports Minister, Abdel Hafiz Al-Sadiq, inform SFA. Abu Garda confirmed that World Health Organization (WHO) watches the healthy condition closely, underscoring that his ministry took several measures to prevent the spread of Ebola in Sudan, pointing to formation of higher committee including the civil aviation corporation, foreign and interior ministries, security services, and the refugees’ commission besides the health ministry’s relevant committees in Darfur and eastern Sudan. The minster said that several hospitals in Khartoum and trained doctors are ready to deal with any suspected cases of the disease, stressing close coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO) in this regard. In Darfur, The African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) imposed last August travel restrictions on its workers between West Africa and Darfur as "decisive measures" to prevent the spread of Ebola virus to Sudan, where around 19,000 troops in Darfur, mostly from West Africa, where of the deadly virus spread. UN Sudanese health worker infected with Ebola has died in Germany, the hospital that had been treating him said Tuesday, in the country's first death from the virus. Local health officials said last week that the patient was Sudanese and had arrived in Germany from Liberia on Thursday. He was the third person brought to Germany for treatment after a Senegalese expert, who was treated in Hamburg and released on October 4, and a Ugandan doctor being treated in Frankfurt, who were both infected in Sierra Leone. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 4,000 people this year, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and is spread through close contact with bodily fluids. The WHO warned Tuesday that the death rate from Ebola, which is passed through contact with bodily fluids, has reached around 70 percent.
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