{"id":72452,"date":"2015-01-14T00:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T00:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=72452"},"modified":"2015-01-14T00:55:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T00:55:06","slug":"kontorloh-gets-ebola-community-care-unit-deputy-chief-of-mission-us-department-of-state-embassy-kathleen-fitzgibbon-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=72452","title":{"rendered":"Kontorloh Gets Ebola Community Care Unit- Deputy Chief of Mission US Department of State Embassy, Kathleen Fitzgibbon Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Freetown, Jan 5,015 (US Embassy) &#8211; Today we participated in the opening of a 20-bed Ebola Treatment Unit in Kontorloh Community Wellington<\/strong>.\u00a0 (Photo: The Kontorloh Community Ebola Care Unit, Wellington east of Freetown)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With USAID\u2019s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance funded this collaborative effort with the local community, a local non-governmental Organization called Lifeline, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Oxfam, and Med Air, an International NGO that will operate the facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK government provided funding for construction. This facility is a \u201cpilot\u201d in the sense that it is a small facility, constructed in just a few weeks\u2019 time, right in the heart of a deeply affected community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scale of this operation allows us to be flexible and responsive to local needs. There are approximately 105 workers at the facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was inspired by the enthusiasm of the health care workers, who proudly showed off \u201cscrubs\u201d made by a local tailor. Most of these young health care workers are from the surrounding area and many of them are Ebola survivors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Med Air Officials told us that they made hiring survivors a priority because they had been through Ebola and could provide motivation and encouragement to others going through the illness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The health care workers demonstrated for the community how patients are admitted and informed them that the decontamination solution does not spread Ebola.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We hope that this local solution engenders trust and can convince residents to send sick relative and neighbors to the treatment unit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What I saw today is a community determined to stop Ebola.<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by Jonathan Kamara<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freetown, Jan 5,015 (US Embassy) &#8211; Today we participated in the opening of a 20-bed Ebola Treatment Unit in Kontorloh Community Wellington.\u00a0 (Photo: The Kontorloh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":72453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,10],"tags":[20076,1498],"class_list":["post-72452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health","tag-kontorloh-community","tag-usaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}