Saturday, September 27, 2014

We don't want Ebola" treatments " Guinea resident's cry out.


Residents say people frightened to go to clinics because
of conspiracy theories that they will be killed by doctors.
Residents of the Guinean capital Conakry, hit hard by
Ebola, say they are afraid to seek treatment at hospitals
for fear of being poisoned by doctors, as the death toll
across West Africa passed the 3, 000 mark .
Local resident Tairu Diallo said on Friday that people
living in his neighbourhood refused to seek medical help
and instead stayed at home, trying to alleviate their
symptoms with drugs bought at a pharmacy.
Diallo said people think doctors at hospitals inject
patients with a deadly poison.
" If we have a stomach ache we don ' t go to hospital
because doctors there will inject you and you will die , " he
said .
Many Guineans say local and foreign healthcare workers
are part of a conspiracy which either deliberately
introduced the outbreak, or invented it as a means of
luring Africans to clinics to harvest their blood and
organs .
Earlier in September , eight people , including journalists
and Ebola- related educators, were killed in southeastern
Guinea .
The World Health Organisation ( WHO ) said on Friday that
the death toll in West Africa has risen to at least 3, 091
out of 6 ,574 probable , suspected and confirmed cases.
Liberia has recorded 1, 830 deaths , around three times
as many as in either Guinea or Sierra Leone , the two
other most
affected countries , according to WHO data received up to
September 23.
An outbreak that began in a remote corner of Guinea
has taken hold of much of neighbouring Liberia and Sierra
Leone ,
prompting warnings that tens of thousands of people
may die from the worst outbreak of the disease on
record.
The WHO said Liberia had reported six confirmed
cases of Ebola and four deaths in the Grand Cru district,
which is near the border with Ivory Coast and had not
previously recorded any cases of Ebola .
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Friday
that his country will lift the controversial suspension of
flights to countries affected by the Ebola virus. He said
there was no longer a reason to restrict air travel .
There are no reported cases of Ebola in Ivory Coast .
Nigeria and Senegal, the two other nations that have had
confirmed cases of Ebola in the region , have not recorded
any new cases or deaths in the last few weeks

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