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Veep Briefs AU Commission Chair On Ghana Leading Ebola Response

By Maxwell Okamafo Addo
General News Veep Briefs AU Commission Chair On Ghana Leading Ebola Response
OCT 23, 2014 LISTEN

Vice President Amissah-Arthur, yesterday briefed, the Chairperson of the Africa Union (AU) Commission, of Ghana's lead support in the Ebola campaign against the further spread of the disease in West Africa.

This was made known when Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the Chairperson of the Africa Union (AU) Commission, conferred with Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur at the Flagstaff House, before the start of a tour of the three affected Ebola countries, Guinea, Liberia, and Sera Leone.

KwesiAmissah Arthur said due to the porous nature of our borders measures must be taken to screen people who enter through these routes.

He said Ebola has now become not only a health concern but also a life time problem and urged the affected countries to start planning on what he described as a post Ebola activities with respect to picking the pieces together and moving on.

The Vice president described the level of complacency in the country in terms of public education on the Ebola virus, which is reported to have claimed about 4500 lives

He stated that despite Ghana's limited resources, it would continue to assist her sister countries that have been affected by the Ebola disease, adding that Ebola disease was no longer a West African sickness, and that the whole world must come together to fight the disease.

He said currently the country is putting in place three Ebola treatment centres located at Tema, Kumasi and Tamale, to handle outbreak cases in the country,

On her part Dr Zuma commended Ghana for playing a key role by acting as the hub to support sister-countries in the sub-region.

She said they saw it prudent to confer with the Vice President in view of President John Dramani Mahama's role as the Chairman of ECOWAS

She appealed to the international community to provide more support to the three Ebola affected countries, since the outbreak of the viral disease has affected the economic activities and also it seem that the Ebola affected countries have also been isolated, because the citizens of those countries have been prevented from traveling by air to other countries.

Dr. Zuma urged countries in the sub-region to work together, to reduce the transmission of the disease.

Currently, three countries in the West African sub-region, namely, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, have been ravaged by the Ebola pandemic, with over 4,500 deaths.

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