02/08/2014
EBOLA AND NURSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to thank my colleague, Dr. Deb Sampson, for emphasizing the
absolutely essential services nurses provide in the Ebola epidemic and,
sadly, bringing to our attention that the international press has largely
not recognized nurses and other health care workers who have lost their
lives in this dangerous work. Dr. Sampson has reminded us of the need to
name and claim the important life saving but life threatening work done by
nurses. Searching for where nurses who have given their lives in this
epidemic are named, I found that Awoko News in Sierra Leone has recognized
one particular nurse by name but did not name her four colleagues who died
with her. See below. In his column, Mr. Cooper reports the important work
of Dr. Sheik Kahn and eulogized his sacrifice and then places Dr. Kahn's
death in the context of the other health care provider's lives lostŠ.
"This news comes less than two weeks after the head nurse at Kenema
Government Hospital¹s Lassa fever unit and Ebola management centre,
Mbalu Fonie, succumbed to the same disease, along with four other nurses
working alongside her. The Ebola front is a warzone, and its soldiers
are dropping like flies. But doctors and nurses should not be soldiers;
their roles should be of healers, not those bearing the brunt of the
highest danger. But these healers have indeed become soldiers, but not
because the enemy has breached the gates. No, it seems rather that the
gates were never built, and the enemy has leisurely strolled up to the
stronghold."
http://www.jconam.net/index.php/2013-12-02-19-34-25
(Juba 4th June 2014) The Directorate of Training and Professional Development , MoH, Juba is informing all the students who have been admitted to Join the National Health Training Institute , to be trained as Health mid level cadres to report to their respective schools before 16th June 2014.