Government says it has stepped up surveillance controls in all major points of entry to detect any signs and symptoms of the Ebola disease.
Health minister Joseph Kasonde says the move is meant at ensuring that all people entering the country are screened for the escalating Ebola virus.
Dr Kasonde said government has since trained health personnel in all major points of entry in response to either suspected or confirmed cases of the Ebola disease.
ZANIS Reports that Dr Kasonde who was flanked by his Deputy Dr Chitalu Chilufya said this at a press briefing in Lusaka yesterday.
The Minister’s remarks come in response to the escalating Ebola virus disease which has affected most West African countries.
And Dr Kasonde has called on members of the public to report any signs of Ebola disease to the relevant health authorities.
Over the past few months, almost 700 people in West Africa have died in the worst Ebola outbreak on record.
Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filo virus.
With that passive & laziness of Zambian healthy workers, katwishi, they will be burring people who are alive. How many people wake-up in cold mortuaries, everyday? Zambian doctors scares me a lot.
Ba Nostradamus, just keep quiet if you have nothing sensible to say.
You can’t understand how the health system operates if you are not in it. No wonder you are saying ‘burring’ instead of burying. Zambia has a vast border shared by eight countries and so the inflax of people can not be fully controlled due to this porousness. Let us just pray that those who enter the country through less popular routes do no have ebola.
I am sure you meant Influx
@MJ, you right, sorry to DRs & Nurses and patients. Its just frustrating the way these America are commenting over the African virus out-breaks.
Please listen and understand we dont need to politicise about this deadly disease EBOLA,PrEvention is better than cure.
The move is welcome.
But who is bringing these diseases to Africa ?.
Its sad as things stand !!!
Nobody is bringing these viruses to Africa, they originate from Africa. Ebola is found in fruit eating bats. These bats are a delicacy in some tribes in west africa. Unless you educate people about the dangers of eating bats, monkeys, gorillas, and other exotic species of animals, africa will remain a source of these viruses. Ebola is just one of the viruses causing haemorrhagic fevers. African burial and funeral rites are not helping to cut the transmission of ebola.
If the health minister says the health workers are being trained, I choose to differ because chirundu is an entry point . The health workers have not be trained in ebola . Being one of the workers I would have been part of the trained at mtendere miss hospital.
symptoms look much like flu – very hard to recognize and may not even manifest for between 2 – 21 days. Once it is identified it may be hard to control. Very dangerous. Hopefully our health workers will be diligent and this virus kept from spreading.