Like U.N., Sierra Leone takes bold step, launches 'unprecedented' action
In Sierra Leone, about 30,000 people are going house-to-house covering 1.5 million households between Friday, September 19 and Sunday, September 21 to listen to community concerns, provide appropriate knowledge about Ebola transmission, prevention, care and treatment, and to encourage families to take sick patients to treatment or observation facilities. According to official information reported by the Minsitry of Health and Sanitation to the World Health Organization Thursday , the incidence of Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone is still rising, with over 200 new cases reported in the past week. Transmission remains high in the capital, Freetown, and surrounding urban areas. The umbers of newly reported cases appear to have stabilized in Kailahun and Kenema, but a number of other districts have reported an increase in the number of new cases over the past week: Port Loko (a district adjacent to Freetown), Bo, Bombali, and Tonkolili, the WHO said. Reporting for Ag...