10-20-2014 12:36 AM
Dr. Magda Mohamed Ahmed Ali
The world shudders from the risk of spreading Ebola We in Sudan and its borders and multiple open we were expecting to be the first health authorities of alert citizens and knows the danger of imminent Ebola through various media outlets available. I have I worried what was said by administration of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health of the Federal in newspaper public opinion dated October 19 as "the probability of appearing in the Sudan, very slim and almost by (zero), and that because Sudan is not from the countries that can arrive disease" without clarifying the reasons so note that in 1976 in the city of Anzara southern Sudan at the time, appeared cases of Ebola disease during the six months injured 248 per person by the death of 53% and knew the epidemic as "Ebola Sudan" it seems that the cases that have emerged later in Zaire region Bomba came sourced from Anzara southern Sudan, where the distance between the two regions traveled by passengers in just four days.
Continue to permit the Director of Epidemiology that has hedges in anticipation of him, including "isolation rooms for patients and monitor the perpetrators of El Geneina and Nyala, Darfur state, where they represent the common border between the states of Nigeria and Chad as from infected countries." If we go back to the statement by the Minister of Health in West Darfur in the month of August 2014 when suspected cases of Bala Apola coming from Chad, the minister issued a decision to close the health institutions.
Contradiction in the statements and actions of others reflect correct blurred vision of the leadership of the country's health work.
The real danger we face is the absence of the concept of Epidemiology and its importance as a cornerstone of health services in our time, which has become the world which serves as the village, diseases can spread widely and reaching the farthest places through various means of transportation and the movement of trade in the international arena. If the disease appeared in the country, the effects can affect people's lives and economies in many countries in the world. He knew Epidemiology is basically a field from the fields of medicine studying the various factors that affect the appearance of the disease and the frequency and method of spread, distribution and evolution course of the disease, whether individual or center-Kan, who live as taught the necessary means for the prevention of these diseases.
This was evident in the types of infections such as bird flu and diarrhea water on the one hand and on the other hand there are cases of leakage of chemical and nuclear accidents all cases spreading rapidly and therefore it was agreed that the International Health Regulations, which adhered to by 194 countries from all over the world, including the member states the world Health Organization and the purpose of these regulations is to help the international community to prevent and respond to health risks, which are spread across the border and threaten the lives of people around the world.
In 2000, was re-formation of the mechanics of the fight against epidemics and formed the World Wide Web Alert Epidemiology GAR)) coordinated by the World Health Organization and the participation of United Nations organizations, researchers, voluntary organizations and bodies Cross and Red Crescent Societies and is working to combat the spread of epidemics in the international arena and to ensure the arrival of technical assistance to affected States and preparedness to cope with epidemics and capacity building to ensure health security at the global level.
Thus, the Sudan was committed according to the principles of the global network of early warning of epidemics that are doing their job to their citizens and embrace activities epidemiological different from raising awareness, knowledge and equipment laboratory, therapeutic and logistical support and all steps to ensure the safety of citizens and protect them and tackle the spread of the epidemic ...... In this commitment there is no room "for privatization" or "devolution".
And the risk of Ebola still threatens us is the most important steps that can follow it is to know the key facts about the disease by reference to the World Health Organization sites, including numerous site http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/ar
Because prevention is better than cure thousand .... God save the citizen and the Sudan of all evil
