1976. In previous outbreaks, ebola has been confined to rural areas in which there was little contact outside the villages of which it appeared. Unfortunately, this outbreak now an epidemic spread from village to an International Center for regional trade, and spread into urban areas in guinea, sierra leone and liberia, that are crowded with limited medical services, and limited Resident Trust much government. The unprecedented west african ebola epidemic has not only killed more than 5,000 people, with more than 14,000 others known to be affected. This situation has skewed the planning for how to deal with the outbreak. In our two previous hearings on the ebola epidemic, an emergency hearing we held on august 7th, and then a followup on september 17th, we heard about the worsening rates of infection and challenges in responding to this forum from Government Agencies such as usaid and cdc and samaritans person. Todays hearing is intended to take testimony from nongovernmental organizat
With the black Emergency Managers association. I think she summed it up in terms of disaster management, in terms of the Emergency Management network. Guinea liberia sierra leone for the west african nations that needs to be established. I think your ims system was outstanding, setting that up, the coordination with stakeholders involved and thats going to be a key to rebuilding your Health Care Structures especially from the Community Level level. I want to commend you for all the work youve done. One other thing with dr. Lacy that he mentioned with the response to that and usually response worldwide is how are volunteers getting reimbursed and paid . I think youre leading towards that. I met with him at georgetown and we discussed that. I didnt talk to you yesterday at the world bank but you mentioned that those plans you have in place, youre at that stage to build the Liberian National Emergency Management system or agency. Thats all i want to say. Thank you. Why dont we come back t
That the Laboratory System is strengthened, the capacity of our liberian military guys to do a job. So you feel confident that today you have, through the incident with the oversight of the Incident Management System you have access to sufficient ambulances and laboratories . You have the isolation and containment. You have the Case Investigation Contact Tracing teams, and the data coordination that that infrastructure is in place. It needs to be sustained and strengthened, and as you say within liberia itself, the biggest immediate challenge is montserrat county and monrovia proper, right . Thats correct. The capacity is there. Our response has reached optimum that we can respond effectively at any time. We can, every county has a wellbuilt Isolation Unit with the u. S. General and myself were in the last etu, second to the last etu where the results are. Every county is having its own ebola treatment unit. Thats the Case Management components out of it. So if there were any resurgenc
Its game on in pakistans first big cricket match in six years. Later in the program for an update. A suicide bomber has hit a shia mosque in eastern saudi arabia during friday prayers. The blast happened in a mosque in a province which is home to the shia minority. Joining us live from riyadh is hashem ahelbarra. So we have heard of attacks before, but its not extremely common that you have a suicide bombing at a mosque. Who is behind it . Reporter so for no claim of responsibility. It happened in the eastern part of the country, which is home to shia minority during the friday prayers. Eyewitnesss say that they were prayering when suddenly they heard a huge explosion. It was obviously a suicide bomber who managed to get into the mosque and detonated his explosives killing 20 worshippers and dozens of people injured, being treated now at the hospital. However, this is an area where there has been attacks in the past. A few months ago armed men targeted worshippers and then targeted Sec
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