Cameroon refines its strategy against Ebola

The health authorities of Cameroon seeks to refine the Government's strategy against the Ebola virus, through a consultation with health professionals gathered Tuesday in Yaoundé, in various corporations including doctors, pharmacists and dental surgeons.

"At the moment, Cameroon has no suspected cases of Ebola. We are in peace, but the serenity should not allow us to sleep on our laurels," said the Cameroon Minister of public health André Mama Fouda, at this meeting in his office in the presence of the resident representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), Charlotte Faty Ndiaye.

Already facing another cholera epidemic and another linked to poliovirus mainly in some parts of the country, the Cameroonian authorities fear an import of this terrible disease on the national territory which recognize, so that an Ebola outbreak does not develop”.

To do this, at the end of a meeting held on 14 August in its services in Yaounde by Prime Minister Philemon Yang with and the Governors of regions, "the Government has decided the restrictive measures on the movement of people and goods from infected countries", according to an official text.

According to Minister Mama Fouda, "administrative authorities have started to do filtering so there is less movement of men and goods" to these infected countries.

The orders of doctors, pharmacists, dental surgeons provided in discussions with the Minister Mama Fouda their "full support" for the conduct of these operations, on the one hand, to prevent the import of the epidemic, and to detect quickly (within 48 hours) of any suspected cases.