No X’mas At Home For Africans Working Abroad Because Of Ebola!!!

Africans working with various health facilities in the United Kingdom are being prevented from coming home by their employers. This is because of the wide spread outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in the West African sub region. Managers of the various health facilities fear their staff may end up contracting the disease if they travel to the African continent.

Reports indicate a lot of law suits have been filed against several Africans working at health facilities there. Managers have thus warned Africans they risk losing their jobs if they go ahead and travel to Africa this Christmas.

The Africans also complain of discrimination compared to their white colleagues.

“I need to come and see my family and my children but I don't also want to lose my job,” one of them told this reporter on condition of anonymity.

She questioned why doctors and specialist at the Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas-Texas were able to save about six whites who contracted the Ebola virus while working in Africa, but could not save two African patients who were sent there. “What is going on?” she questioned.

Information available to this reporter also revealed that the United Kingdom embassy in Ghana is not granting visas to African nationals wanting to come home for the Christmas holidays because of the scare of the Ebola outbreak.

But in an effort to reduce the outbreak, some West African health workers have been dispatched to the affected regions. Briefing journalists at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, the consultant to the West African Health Organization (WAHO), Dr. Jide Coker, explained that fifty-three frontline health workers from Benin, Cote d'Ivoire and Mali were emplaned to Guinea to help tackle the Ebola epidemic in that country.

Another batch of 29 workers, including Ghanaians, has been airlifted to Sierra Leone, while 49 others will be deployed to Liberia. The volunteers, including 42 Ghanaians, have been trained and will be deployed to the Health ministries in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in a coordinated response effort to fight the disease.

But responding to the efforts by the (WAHO) the health workers stated: “I don't trust the whites any longer and it's time we start solving our problems as Africans, these whites want to kill us.” she alleged.