EBOLA SIERRA LEONE admits NOW New OFFICIAL POLICY=HELP PEOPLE HOME CARE EBOLA VICTIMS!

ainitfunny

ainitfunny

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I TOLD YOU SO.
Once the medical system is overwhelmed, this is the only LOGICAL MOVE.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/w...t-a-defeat-by-ebola-in-sierra-leone.html?_r=0
Officials Admit a ‘Defeat’ by Ebola in Sierra Leone

By ADAM NOSSITEROCT. 10, 2014

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Acknowledging a major “defeat” in the fight against Ebola, international health officials battling the epidemic in Sierra Leone approved plans on Friday to help families tend to patients at home, recognizing that they are overwhelmed and have little chance of getting enough treatment beds in place quickly to meet the surging need.

The decision signifies a significant shift in the struggle against the rampaging disease. Officials said they would begin distributing painkillers, rehydrating solution and gloves to hundreds of Ebola-afflicted households in Sierra Leone, contending that the aid arriving here was not fast or extensive enough to keep up with an outbreak that doubles in size every month or so.

“It’s basically admitting defeat,” said Dr. Peter H. Kilmarx, the leader of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s team in Sierra Leone, adding that it was “now national policy that we should take care of these people at home.”

“For the clinicians it’s admitting failure, but we are responding to the need,” Dr. Kilmarx said. “There are hundreds of people with Ebola that we are not able to bring into a facility.”

The effort to prop up a family’s attempts to care for ailing relatives at home does not mean that officials have abandoned plans to increase the number of beds in hospitals and clinics. But before the beds can be added and doctors can be trained, experts warn, the epidemic will continue to grow.

C.D.C. officials acknowledged that the risks of dying from the disease and passing it to loved ones at home were serious under the new policy — “You push some Tylenol to them, and back away,” Dr. Kilmarx said, describing its obvious limits.

But many patients with Ebola are already dying slowly at home, untreated and with no place to go. There are 304 beds for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone now, but 1,148 are needed, the World Health Organization reported this week. So officials here said there was little choice but to try the new approach as well.

“For the first time, the nation is accepting the possibility of home care, out of necessity,” said Jonathan Mermin, another C.D.C. official and physician here. “It is a policy out of necessity.”

Faced with similar circumstances in neighboring Liberia, where even more people are dying from the disease, the American government said last month that it would ship 400,000 kits with gloves and disinfectant.

“The home kits are no substitute for getting people” to a treatment facility, said Sheldon Yett, the Unicef director for Liberia. “But the idea is to ensure that if somebody has to take care of somebody at home, they’re able to do so.”

More than 4,000 people have died from the outbreak in West Africa, but the United Nations funding appeal remains woefully short, with countries pledging only one-fourth of the $1 billion that the world body says it needs to contain the disease, the United Nations deputy secretary general, Jan Eliasson, told the General Assembly on Friday.

Britain has pledged to get an additional 400 beds into urban areas around Sierra Leone by sometime next month. More rudimentary holding centers for patients awaiting space in hospitals are planned by the government here. And promises of international aid have increased substantially since the outbreak was first identified in neighboring Guinea in March.

But on Friday, Sory Sesay, 2, lay face down on a bench at his home, an arm dangling, his eyes open, listless and apathetic.

What remained of his family was sitting immobilized on the front porch with him at their house in Waterloo, just outside Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. All of them were sick: his father, who had already lost his wife and daughter; his 11 year-old brother; and a 16-year-old neighbor, whose mother had already died.

They had no painkillers, no rehydrating solution, and only a sack of rice to eat.

“The government has not yet come in to assist us,” said Sheka Dumbuya, the local community leader. “Mr. Sesay is actually traumatized. We took them the day before yesterday to the health center, but there is no space for them.”
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ainitfunny

ainitfunny

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If ONE GOVERNMENT would do it, ANY GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING OURS would be left with few alternatives to this when the medical care system was entirely overwhelmed.

BE GLAD, when it gets that bad it will be either home care or the LAST STEP, which is to treat them at home or the authorities SHOOT SUSPECTED CASES when they cannot be cared for, and THAT WOULD include a lot of people who DID NOT HAVE EBOLA, but were just sick from some other reason!!
 
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meandk0610

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I wonder if they're able to count all of the ill and dead in the families that will pick up their kits (1 kit per person? per family?) and have more than half die. What about burial teams? Can the burial teams keep up? What happens when the dead are even more scattered around than they already are? I understand why it has come to this, but this is the beginning of a nightmare for them (initially, maybe/likely all of us later).
 
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Oh my.

Thanks for the heads up, Ain't Funny. This is tragedy on a scale we've rarely seen. Unlike earthquakes and tsunamis, which are usually over before you see them, this just keeps getting worse and worse.

You have been right on everything I've seen that you wrote regarding this outbreak/epidemic. Too bad you weren't in a position to manage our response. I rarely answer your posts, don't like to put lots of "I agree" posts to clutter threads, but please don't think you aren't being heard.

Hats off to you.

:rs:
 
Hacker

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I am very concerned how non-infected people can become infected while taking care of family members.

I understand this is a last resort. But wow, this will likely make it much worse !!

And Ainitfunny, thanks for keeping up on all this.
 
tiger13

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Those people are all doomed, and they need to impose a strict no travel order to and from those countries, and zones until that disease dies out. As harsh as this sounds it will be the only way to stop this or it will never stop and Obama will act like the proverbial Typhoid Mary and spread this around the globe by allowing them to come here.
 
Melodi

Melodi

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Husband and I were just talking about this, not this story because it wasn't in yet, but how a lot of West Africa is likely to just fall apart (the medical system) and people will either live or die until the disease "burns out" in a hideous, giant version of the Bush Hospital experiences of the 1970's. Thousands will also die from non-Ebola problems but won't be treated because there will be no one to treat them and no where to go...

First step, quarantine off this area from regular air travel NOW!!!
 
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I think your right.

tiger13 said:
Those people are all doomed, and they need to impose a strict no travel order to and from those countries, and zones until that disease dies out. As harsh as this sounds it will be the only way to stop this or it will never stop and Obama will act like the proverbial Typhoid Mary and spread this around the globe by allowing them to come here.
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bw

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Hacker said:
I am very concerned how non-infected people can become infected while taking care of family members.

I understand this is a last resort. But wow, this will likely make it much worse !!
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Each family, and each family member, will have to decide what risks they're willing to take for other family. Some will care for the sick and run the risk. Some will shun the sick. We may be faced with the same choice in the next couple years.
 
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Harbinger

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nternational health officials battling the epidemic in Sierra Leone approved plans on Friday to help families tend to patients at home, recognizing that they are overwhelmed and have little chance of getting enough treatment beds in place quickly to meet the surging need.

Wow, really! Let me get this straight....U.S. has had their grubby little hands in it since 1976 and it's been around and contain for 38 years and suddenly it's now a burden, overwhelming, and a pandemic.....Alrighty then!
 
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bw

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Harbinger said:
nternational health officials battling the epidemic in Sierra Leone approved plans on Friday to help families tend to patients at home, recognizing that they are overwhelmed and have little chance of getting enough treatment beds in place quickly to meet the surging need.

Wow, really! Let me get this straight....U.S. has had their grubby little hands in it since 1976 and it's been around and contain for 38 years and suddenly it's now a burden, overwhelming, and a pandemic.....Alrighty then!
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Yeah, it normally burned out a village before it could spread. This time it got out. Any other questions?
 
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Harbinger

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bw said:
Yeah, it normally burned out a village before it could spread. This time it got out. Any other questions?
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No, they claimed it spread in order to burn villages and erase all trace of their experiments.....

The crux of the matter is that every time an out break has occurred all travel has been shut down except for this time.....Convenient.

And that's not just with Ebola. That is with any bio-weapon. It is contained until they want it to spread. Whether it does as expected is a different matter.
 
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bw

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Harbinger said:
No, they claimed it spread in order to burn villages and erase all trace of their experiments.....

The crux of the matter is that every time an out break has occurred all travel has been shut down except for this time.....Convenient.
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Call it however it fits your frame of reference. We still have to deal with it as it comes.
 
NoPlugsNM

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At least the gov of Sierra Leone tried to get things under control . . our gov just spews mis-information and lies . . the US is not equipped to deal with Ebola, or any other virus, at any level, it's time to make sure you have preps for this stuff . . we will ALL be on our own, our gov won't even try to see that anything gets handed out to help us.


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steve graham

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I agree with everything you said almost ready....I know I would feel far less stessed about this mess if we actually had someone with a functioning brain managing it.......Ain't Funny could kick some much needed butts.......but we all know that an independent thinking and functioning brain will never be part of the "managing team" of this nightmare!
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Oh my.

Thanks for the heads up, Ain't Funny. This is tragedy on a scale we've rarely seen. Unlike earthquakes and tsunamis, which are usually over before you see them, this just keeps getting worse and worse.

You have been right on everything I've seen that you wrote regarding this outbreak/epidemic. Too bad you weren't in a position to manage our response. I rarely answer your posts, don't like to put lots of "I agree" posts to clutter threads, but please don't think you aren't being heard.

Hats off to you.

:rs:
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Harbinger

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bw said:
Call it however it fits your frame of reference. We still have to deal with it as it comes.
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Um, this isn't about how we are going to have to deal with it. This is simply another example of the govt letting the people down; doing for their own benefit, and not doing what they should be.
 
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