[net-gold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: EBOLA VIRUS : AFRICA : COUNTRIES SIERRA LEONE: Officials Admit a 'Defeat' by Ebola in Sierra Leone
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- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:31:23 -0400 (EDT)
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MEDICAL: DISEASES: EBOLA VIRUS :
AFRICA :
COUNTRIES SIERRA LEONE:
Officials Admit a 'Defeat' by Ebola in Sierra Leone
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Officials Admit a 'Defeat' by Ebola in Sierra Leone
By ADAM NOSSITER
OCTOBER 10, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/africa/
officials-admit-a-defeat-by-ebola-in-sierra-leone.html
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone Acknowledging a major defeat in the fight against
Ebola, international health officials battling the epidemic in Sierra
Leone approved plans on Friday to help families tend to patients at home,
recognizing that they are overwhelmed and have little chance of getting
enough treatment beds in place quickly to meet the surging need.
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The decision signifies a significant shift in the struggle against the
rampaging disease. Officials said they would begin distributing
painkillers, rehydrating solution and gloves to hundreds of
Ebola-afflicted households in Sierra Leone, contending that the aid
arriving here was not fast or extensive enough to keep up with an outbreak
that doubles in size every month or so.
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Its basically admitting defeat, said Dr. Peter H. Kilmarx, the leader of
the federal Centers for Disease Control and Preventions team in Sierra
Leone, adding that it was now national policy that we should take care of
these people at home.
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For the clinicians its admitting failure, but we are responding to the
need, Dr. Kilmarx said. There are hundreds of people with Ebola that we
are not able to bring into a facility.
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The effort to prop up a familys attempts to care for ailing relatives at
home does not mean that officials have abandoned plans to increase the
number of beds in hospitals and clinics. But before the beds can be added
and doctors can be trained, experts warn, the epidemic will continue to
grow.
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C.D.C. officials acknowledged that the risks of dying from the disease and
passing it to loved ones at home were serious under the new policy You
push some Tylenol to them, and back away, Dr. Kilmarx said, describing its
obvious limits.
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But many patients with Ebola are already dying slowly at home, untreated
and with no place to go. There are 304 beds for Ebola patients in Sierra
Leone now, but 1,148 are needed, the World Health Organization reported
this week. So officials here said there was little choice but to try the
new approach as well.
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For the first time, the nation is accepting the possibility of home care,
out of necessity, said Jonathan Mermin, another C.D.C. official and
physician here. It is a policy out of necessity.
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Faced with similar circumstances in neighboring Liberia, where even more
people are dying from the disease, the American government said last month
that it would ship 400,000 kits with gloves and disinfectant.
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