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Dear ETC Colleagues,
You are invited to participate in the first Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) information-sharing teleconference to discuss the ICT response and plans in Sierra Leone after the torrential rains and mudslides experienced on 13 August.
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
On the night of 13 August 2017, the city of Freetown and its outskirts experienced torrential rains and mudslides that continued well into the morning of 14 August 2017.
Heavy and prolonged rain that occurred in Sierra Leone last week, caused a massive landslide on Monday, 14 August. Areas around Freetown, the capital, were swept by a mudslide killing almost 500 people, and triggering massive destructions especially in the areas of Regent and Kamayama.
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.
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster has not been activated in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.