ஜெனீவா: உயிர்கொல்லி நோயான எபோலா வைரஸ் தாக்கி உலகம் முழுதும் சுமார் 13,268 பேர் பாதிப்பு அடைந்துள்ளதாகவும் அதில் 4,960 பேர் இறந்துள்ளனர் எனவும் உலக சுகாதார அமைப்பு அறிவித்துள்ளது.
உலக சுகாதார அமைப்பு வெளியிட்டுள்ள ஓர் அறிக்கையில், உயிர்கொல்லி எபோலா நோயினால் தக்கபட்டவர்களில் 70 சதவீதம் பேர் இறந்துவிடுவதாகத் தெரிவிக்கப்படுவதனால், நிஜத்தில் உயிரிழந்தோர் எண்ணிக்கை இன்னும் கூடுதலாக இருக்ககூடும் என அஞ்சபடுகிறது. ஆப்பிர்க்க கண்டத்தில் இருக்கும் லைபீரியா நாட்டில் எபோலா நோய் பாதித்த 6,619 நபர்களில் 2,766 பேர் உயிரிழந்துள்ளனர். சியரா லியோனிலுள்ள 4,862 எபோலா நோயாளிகளில், 1,130 பேர் உயிரிழந்தனர்.கீனியா நாட்டில், எபோலா தாக்கிய 1,760 பேரில் 1,054 பேர் அந்த நோய்க்கு இறந்துள்ளனர் எனவும் அவ்வறிக்கையில் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.
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Ebola has killed 4,950 people of the 13,241 infected since the outbreak started earlier this year, according to the World Health Organisation, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. While countries from the United States to China and Cuba have deployed resources and health personnel in a UN-led aid surge, fast-growing African states and institutions have faced questions about the level and speed of their own contributions. The African Union and the African Development Bank will guide the legal set-up of the new fund, which will be administered by a board of trustees drawn from corporate Africa. Donors to the fund also include foreign firms that do business in Africa, Mr Masiyiwa said. At the meeting, African telecom firms also agreed an initiative to provide a platform for their customers to give at least a dollar each, with the potential of reaching 700 million mobile phone users. The platform, which will use one short code across all networks, is expected to be ready early next month. Mustapha Sidiki Kaloko, the African Union’s Commissioner for Social Affairs, said the priority was to secure transport for the 1,000 extra health workers required.
“If somebody could help us with the transportation of the workers to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea … that would be very, very helpful to us,” Mr Kaloko said. The commissioner said they had 103 health workers on the ground but the number could go up to 2,000 by the end of December.
Mali ‘could be Ebola-free’
News of the new ‘fighting fund’ came as the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced that the Ebola outbreak in Mali would be “under control” – and limited to just one positive diagnosis – if no new cases are identified in the next week. Malian and international health workers reacted “much faster” after the first case was confirmed than in other West African countries, Teresa Sancristoval, head of the emergency unit for Ebola at MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, said on Saturday. Mali has the equipment to deal with a small outbreak and MSF is training workers, she said. “This is the key. If you detect it on time, you can manage the outbreak,” she said. Mali became the sixth country in West Africa to confirm a case of the deadly virus last month when a woman brought her infected two-year-old granddaughter from Guinea. The World Health Organisation declares a nation Ebola-free if no new cases have been reported in 42 days, twice the incubation period. Senegal and Nigeria were cleared last month.
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