Health officials in Sierra Leone have discovered
scores of bodies in a remote diamond-mining area, raising fears that the
scale of the Ebola outbreak may have been underreported. The World
Health Organization said they uncovered a "grim scene" in the eastern
district of Kono.
A WHO responseak. Ebola deaths in West AfricaUp to 3 - 6 December -6,346
Deaths - probable, confirmed and e team had been sent to Kono to investigate
a sharp rise in Ebola cases. Ebola has killed 6,346 people in West
Africa, with more than
17,800 infected. Sierra Leone has the highest number
of Ebola cases in West Africa, with 7,897 cases since the beginning of
the outbrsuspected (Includes one in the US and
six in Mali) 3,177 Liberia 1,742 Sierra Leone 1,412 Guinea 8 Nigeria
Source: WHO The WHO said in a statement on Wednesday that over 11 days
in Kono, "two teams buried 87 bodies, including a nurse, an ambulance
driver, and a janitor drafted into removing bodies as they piled up".
Bodies of Ebola victims are highly infectious and safe burials are
crucial in preventing the transmission of the disease. The response team
also found 25 people who had died in the past five days piled up in a
cordoned section of the local hospital. Dr Olu Olushayo, a member of the
WHO's Ebola response team, said: "Our team met heroic doctors and
nurses at their wits' end, exhausted burial teams and lab techs, all
doing the best they could but they simply ran out of resources and were
overrun with gravely ill people." Health officials are worried that many
of the Ebola cases in Kono have gone unreported until now. "We are only
seeing the ears of the hippo," said Dr Amara Jambai, Sierra Leone's
Director of Disease Prevention and Control. The district of more than
350,000 inhabitants had reported 119 cases up to 9 December. Authorities
in Sierra Leone have decided to put Kono district on "lockdown" from 10
to 23 December to try and contain the outbreak. During the lockdown,
no-one will be able to enter or leave the district but they can move
around freely within it.
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