Via Le Jour: Means of prevention against Ebola: Journalists at school. The Google translation:
"Orientation Workshop professional communication on Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever." This is the theme of a workshop day for journalists, which opened this morning at the newsagent.
Dr Sakoba Keita Directorate prevention Ministry of Health took the opportunity to give the latest figures on the evolution of the disease: "We recorded since the beginning of the epidemic 122 cases including 80 deaths. Guéckédou 77 cases against 55 deaths, Macenta 23 cases and 14 deaths, Kissidougou 8 cases and 5 deaths, Dabola 2 cases and 2 deaths, Dinguiraye 1 case and 1 death Conakry and 11 cases and 3 deaths. We prefectures where the number of cases began to fall, as Macenta. The new homes are Conakry, Dabola and Dinguiraye."
The representative of UNFPA, Edwige Adekambi Domingo: "Better equip media professionals to accelerate the fight against Ebola. This initiative aims to support journalists in their role of relaying info. We are in an emergency situation, we must act quickly. I invite you to go to the right sources to relay the right information. Ensure that the measures that have been proven elsewhere are judiciously exploited the Guinean people."
Dr. Mamadou Diallo Rafiou, National Director of the Health Promotion presided over the opening of the workshop. "We have a lot of hope with the support of professionals and the media relay we can overcome this epidemic. The Minister of Health is inviting journalists to inform enough people about the modes of transmission and prevention of the disease. Discouraging them to eat bushmeat, to avoid non-essential travel in epidemic areas. Today we believe that the results are satisfactory. With all his efforts, we are convinced that Ebola will soon be a distant memory."
Note that the training is provided by Guinean and Congolese experts.
