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As a Kiwi Australian, sarcasm is not new to me. Nor is exaggerating a bit to embellish a story. When I’ve had the sniffles in the past, I am definitely guilty of having complained that I had Ebola.
Happy Holiday. Avoid greetings and hugs. Ebola is here.
This weekend was Eid Al Adha and that was the message being sent to everyone by a local mobile phone carrier. The message is stangely festive and sinister at the same time.
The Challenge
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) provides common information and communications technology (ICT) services to the humanitarian community in emergency operations.
WFP constructed this ETU managed by the NGO named ALIMA where the ET Cluster provided Internet connectivity.
Doctors, nurses, surveillance teams, psycho-social experts, logisticians, epidemiologists, researchers, drivers, laboratory technicians, managers of Ebola Treatment Units, civil servants at the Ministries of Health, employees of Ebola Response command centres in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea a
Nzérékoré, located in the Guinea forest region, is the second largest city in the country. It is also the city where 182 Ebola cases were reported.
Ever felt like you’re being ‘sling shot’ from one location to another? You land in one location and only a short while later you’re being slung somewhere else? This is how I felt in my first week in Guinea.
After 16 months supporting the fight against Ebola, the ETC operation has come to a close.
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster has not been activated in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
On 23 March 2014, Guinea’s Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of a rapidly evolving outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD, or “Ebola”) in the south-eastern region of the country.