Ebola scare: Doctors turn off emergency lines

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• The mask 11 years ago

  1. Put pressure on the President and your MP (representative) on a daily basis.
  
  2. Watch Ghana TV News everyday
  
  3. Have a stock pile of the tentative drugs (antiviral agents) at home.
  
  4. If you have a relative who is ...
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  1. Put pressure on the President and your MP (representative) on a daily basis.
  
  2. Watch Ghana TV News everyday
  
  3. Have a stock pile of the tentative drugs (antiviral agents) at home.
  
  4. If you have a relative who is a doctor or a virologist living outside Ghana ask him or her to come back home and help.
  
  5. If possible buy acquire the ebola protective garment (body condom)
  
  6. Wash your hands often with savlon, dettol etc
  
  7. Push for reforms at the School of Medical Sciences KNUST.
  
  8. Avoid eating bush meat.

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• Akos 11 years ago

  Why not simply educate people by TV advert & radios?

  Why not simply educate people by TV advert & radios?

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• otaniba 11 years ago

  I wish this ebola had come during election time when nobody will be allowed to cross the border to vote.

  I wish this ebola had come during election time when nobody will be allowed to cross the border to vote.

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• Kwamina Andrews 11 years ago

  Clearly other physician extenders like nurse educators or qualified healtheducators can ma phone lines. Also recorded messages can be played and if someone needs to speak to a health care expert they can proceed to the next l ...
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  Clearly other physician extenders like nurse educators or qualified healtheducators can ma phone lines. Also recorded messages can be played and if someone needs to speak to a health care expert they can proceed to the next level.

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• ZoRRo 11 years ago

  How do you expect people to remember these 10 numbers in an emergency ? Why can't we use simple ones like 777 ? Oh Ghana !

  How do you expect people to remember these 10 numbers in an emergency ? Why can't we use simple ones like 777 ? Oh Ghana !

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• James Naru 11 years ago

  I do not understand why in Ghana we make things so difficult.
  Why not use a simple number 111, 222, or 333

  I do not understand why in Ghana we make things so difficult.
  Why not use a simple number 111, 222, or 333

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• I can't believe it 11 years ago

  So is this our response to ebola? Jokers!

  So is this our response to ebola? Jokers!

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• ADWO-LONDON 11 years ago

  Ghanain Doctors are either incompetent,uncaring or lack empathy.Yes their job is not to turn people seeking information and advise about Ebola away. Where is the public health service? why are they not out there campaining an ...
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  Ghanain Doctors are either incompetent,uncaring or lack empathy.Yes their job is not to turn people seeking information and advise about Ebola away. Where is the public health service? why are they not out there campaining and giving advice to the citizens?It is no wonder Ghana has become a country of funerals and sorrow.The health service across the country is not fit for purpose and urge the Minister of health to act about the health state and the numerous deaths in our communities.famlies are grieving all the time as they cannot get the right treatment and care for their sick ones.

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• Emmanuel Lombogedong 11 years ago

  So, medical profession is a second job for some medical officer? Well, what can we say.

  So, medical profession is a second job for some medical officer? Well, what can we say.

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• JY 11 years ago

  Because the health system is not fair and the public perception that health is Dr. or Nurse and not any other health professional. Disease control and Surveillance Officers are the frontline staff when it comes to disease out ...
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  Because the health system is not fair and the public perception that health is Dr. or Nurse and not any other health professional. Disease control and Surveillance Officers are the frontline staff when it comes to disease outbreak investigation and general disease prevention. Some of these Dr. or nurses don't even have public health and epidemiology background to come out with intervention measures to prevent ebola. Stop recognizing they alone.

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• Ottim 11 years ago

  Busy criticizing. Govt policies

  Busy criticizing. Govt policies

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• nabia 11 years ago

  Ebola has emergency call lines, then the next scare will also have lines, then cholera will have lines, CSM lines, H1N1 lines etc.
  Why can we not have standard health lines for the country which are easy to memorize and used ...
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  Ebola has emergency call lines, then the next scare will also have lines, then cholera will have lines, CSM lines, H1N1 lines etc.
  Why can we not have standard health lines for the country which are easy to memorize and used.
  Tony Goodman and the ministry are using old strategies to run a modern day health system.
  What are the regional and district health teams doing such that the country then has only 3 lines. like suggested this your strategy for public education will not work decentralize your education and communication strategy rather than holding unto what you are doing. Dont you have other work to do

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• Kwame VS Kofi 11 years ago

  unfortunately the JUJU-Men don`t have emergency lines....

  unfortunately the JUJU-Men don`t have emergency lines....

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• Nana Yaw ( New York ) 11 years ago

  The so called doctors can not and should not turned of emergency lines for any tangible reasons they may come out with. This is a lack of education and knowledge and it serves as incompetence on how information is delivered t ...
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  The so called doctors can not and should not turned of emergency lines for any tangible reasons they may come out with. This is a lack of education and knowledge and it serves as incompetence on how information is delivered to the public. There should be a public forum on how to relate information to the rest of the general population. The Public Health Administration and Department of Health should also open up more lines and stop acting like "we know it all". The disease is at our door steps and we need all the knowledge to combat and hold down the disease. Whenever there is Ebola out break erupt in Ghana, millions would die due to how we live in communities and the structure of the houses we live in. Lack of water supply for constant hand washing in case of body contact ( hand shakes ) can also play a deadly role.
  If a minister is able to answer to 4 cell phone lines, how come a country as a whole can not maintained a useful hot lines for Ebola. Make commercials on all television channels and FM radio stations. In fact our MPs have little vision for the general population. God Bless Ghana!

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• read it 11 years ago

  In instance praying is not all the thing to do is to take action by changing the way of dealing with the sick and the dead to prevent the spreading of Ebola.

  In instance praying is not all the thing to do is to take action by changing the way of dealing with the sick and the dead to prevent the spreading of Ebola.

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