Via Digitalcongo.net, an ACP report: North Kivu: training of the 2nd Rapid Response Team against Ebola Virus Disease. The Google translation, lightly edited:
At the beginning of the week, North Kivu Provincial Minister of Health Christophe Ndibeshe Byernero will launched the training of the second Ebola Rapid Ebola Response Team at the Pallotine Missionary Center in Goma, North Kivu. Ndibeshe praised the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) in building a multi-disciplinary team ready to be quickly deployed to any new outbreak of the Ebola outbreak that has attacked families in North Kivu.
The provincial authority has recommended maximizing learning time for Ebola health-care providers whose main mission will be to save human lives in the corners of the country where they will have to go. WHO's Dr Diallo Mouctar said the training of this second rapid response team for the Ebola virus (EVD) response is of paramount importance because if a new health zone is affected by this epidemic the health cadres in formation will have to intervene in 21 days to circumscribe it.
The delegate of the Provincial Health Division (DPS) in North Kivu, Amisi Muyango Pene Pene Nyembo, and the head of the sub-coordination, both praised this involvement of the WHO to organize a series of training intervention team. They need to be quick to fight the disease and set up pioneers who can react to more than Ebola virus disease, because the technology they receive from these health professionals makes them capable of handling any other epidemic such as cholera.
Forty health professionals made up of epidemiologists, laboratory technicians, psychiatrists, security specialists and experts in communication and social mobilization benefited from this training of the second Rapid Response Team against Ebola Virus Disease.
