Five people infected every hour with Ebola virus in Sierra Leone
13:22, 2 October 2014
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 2, ARMENPRESS: Five people are being infected with the deadly Ebola virus every hour in Sierra Leone as the outbreak continues to outstrip health supplies, a leading charity has warned. An estimated 765 new cases were reported in Sierra Leone last week alone, but there are only 327 beds for Ebola patients in the country.
Armenpress reports, citing The Independent that Save the Children said “untold numbers” of children are dying anonymously at home or in the streets, meaning the scale of the problem is massively under-reported.
More than 7,100 people have contracted the virus in West Africa and more than 3,300 have died after contracting it, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Sierra Leone and Liberia have been among the West African countries worst hit by the outbreak.
Save the Children said the outbreak was spreading “at a terrifying rate” and people will continue to die at home, increasing the chance of infecting others, unless the international community radically steps up its response. “Children, more than anyone, are suffering painful, anonymous and undignified deaths at home. It’s very difficult at this stage to even give accurate figures on the number of children who are dying from Ebola, as monitoring systems cannot keep pace with the outbreak.”
Their warning comes ahead of a conference hosted by the UK and Sierra Leone governments in London on Thursday. The Ebola Donors Conference, which will also be attended by figures from the international community, will discuss how the global community can provide an effective response to the crisis in West Africa.
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