ECOWAS defence chiefs in Ghana over Boko Haram, Ebola

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• Cheap talk 11 years ago

  just talking. if The Nigerian military is being frightened by Boko Haram and they are on the run country can step in? Only America! I can imagine visionless mahama opening the meeting and saying we shall fight book haram on t ...
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  just talking. if The Nigerian military is being frightened by Boko Haram and they are on the run country can step in? Only America! I can imagine visionless mahama opening the meeting and saying we shall fight book haram on the sea, air and land without telling us how, when and with what? Just wait and see

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• ATWIMA - KOFORIDUA 11 years ago

  The entire Ghana is affected by "Ebola-Mahama", Ghana is only waiting to die.

  The entire Ghana is affected by "Ebola-Mahama", Ghana is only waiting to die.

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• Maame Abena 11 years ago

  Ghana and the whole West Africa is in danger of Boko Haram. We must stop them before they stretch from Northern Nigeria to other parts of West Africa.

  Ghana and the whole West Africa is in danger of Boko Haram. We must stop them before they stretch from Northern Nigeria to other parts of West Africa.

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• John 11 years ago

  Boko Haram did not happened by accident,it came about bcos of the greed of Nigeria leaders who are not different from what we have in Ghana.For now the condition in Ghana is conducive for Boko Haram to come.

  Boko Haram did not happened by accident,it came about bcos of the greed of Nigeria leaders who are not different from what we have in Ghana.For now the condition in Ghana is conducive for Boko Haram to come.

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• OCLOCK 11 years ago

  IN THE MOST UNLIKELY EVENT THAT NANA ADDO BECOMES PRESIDENT I SHALL QUOTE YOU. CRIMINAL BOKO HARRAM CHAPS DO NOT NEED TO COME FROM ANYWHERE.THOSE IN NIGERIA ORIGINATED FROM NIGERIA. GHANA OWN BOKO HARAM WILL EMANATE FROM GHAN ...
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  IN THE MOST UNLIKELY EVENT THAT NANA ADDO BECOMES PRESIDENT I SHALL QUOTE YOU. CRIMINAL BOKO HARRAM CHAPS DO NOT NEED TO COME FROM ANYWHERE.THOSE IN NIGERIA ORIGINATED FROM NIGERIA. GHANA OWN BOKO HARAM WILL EMANATE FROM GHANA. SO DONT WORRY. IF THEY ARE NOT IN NOW THEY WILL PROBABLY GERMINATE AND GROW IN NANA ADDOS REGIME.SO JUST WAIT AND SEE

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• EBO 11 years ago

  CHOLEREA SHD BE

  CHOLEREA SHD BE

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• Kwesi Kodam 11 years ago

  Block headed idiots. Defence Chiefs going to discuss Ebola. When Health Chiefs meet they talk about finance and Finance Chiefs dicuss peace and the Heads of State clean gutters. Oh Blackman!!!

  Block headed idiots. Defence Chiefs going to discuss Ebola. When Health Chiefs meet they talk about finance and Finance Chiefs dicuss peace and the Heads of State clean gutters. Oh Blackman!!!

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• OCLOCK 11 years ago

  THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE GETTING THINGS WRONG. CLAIMING TO BE EDUCATED BUT VERY HOLLOW. SECURITY IS NOT MERELY OF GUNS AND BULLETS. IT IS NOT ABOUT FIGHTING AND BOMBS. IT IS ABOUT SETTING CONDITIONS RIGHT AND IN A MANNER CONGEN ...
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  THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE GETTING THINGS WRONG. CLAIMING TO BE EDUCATED BUT VERY HOLLOW. SECURITY IS NOT MERELY OF GUNS AND BULLETS. IT IS NOT ABOUT FIGHTING AND BOMBS. IT IS ABOUT SETTING CONDITIONS RIGHT AND IN A MANNER CONGENIAL FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. IT IS ABOUT CREATING ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR PEACE LOVING SOULS TO GO ABOUT THEIR NORMAL BUSINESS AND FOR ACCEPTING RISK BEYOND THE SHOULDERS OF THE CIVILIAN WORKFORCE. EBOLA IS A PANDEMIC THAT YOUR SO CALLED LEARNED DOCTORS ARE SHUNNING PATIENTS AS DIRECTED BY YOUR SO CALLED UNCLE ...BEING TUC BOSS. HE WAS HEARD DECLARING THAT DOCTORS SHOULD RUN AWAY FROM HANDLING EBOLA PATIENTS WHEN THEY SUCH PATIENTS REPORTING TO THE HOSPITALS FOR MANAGEMENT....HE ENCOURAGED DOCTORS TO GO ON STRIKE WHEN BABIES AND MOTHERS WERE DYING ON DAILY BASIS. THE 37 MILITARY HOSP WAS OVERCROWDED AND WORKING 24/7. THAT WAS SECURITY RESPONSES.THERE ARE CASES THAT ARE EMERGING IN LIBERIA FOR WHICH DOCTORS ARE OVERWHELMED. EBOLA CENTRES ARE NOT ERECTED AND SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT FOR FREE AND FOR NO PAYMENT.IT IS THE SECURITY APPARATUS THAT CAN RESPOND.PLEASE GO BACK TO SCHOOL.

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• Tekonline.org 11 years ago

  The Ebola virus is spreading exponentially across Liberia as patients fill taxis in a fruitless search for medical care, the World Health Organization said Monday.
  
  The various reports illustrated in the clearest possible w ...
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  The Ebola virus is spreading exponentially across Liberia as patients fill taxis in a fruitless search for medical care, the World Health Organization said Monday.
  
  The various reports illustrated in the clearest possible way the disparities driving the epidemic in West Africa, where there’s almost no medical system structure. The three patients evacuated to the United States have all begun to recover quickly once they get good supportive care, which includes around-the-clock nursing care and good nutrition.
  
  WHO and other groups have been warning that the situation in Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea is dire. It’s especially bad in Liberia, WHO said Monday.
  
  “Transmission of the Ebola virus in Liberia is already intense and the number of new cases is increasing exponentially,” WHO said in a statement.
  
  "No free beds for Ebola treatment exist anywhere in the country.”
  
  “In Monrovia, taxis filled with entire families, of whom some members are thought to be infected with the Ebola virus, crisscross the city, searching for a treatment bed. There are none. As WHO staff in Liberia confirm, no free beds for Ebola treatment exist anywhere in the country.”
  
  For example, in Montserrado county, 1,000 beds are urgently needed but only 240 beds are available. WHO has said more than 3,600 people have been infected with Ebola in this West African epidemic, and 2,000 have died, but the organization predicts as many as 20,000 will be sickened before it’s over. Half of those infected have been dying.
  
  “According to a WHO staff member who has been in Liberia for the past several weeks, motorbike-taxis and regular taxis are a hot source of potential Ebola virus transmission, as these vehicles are not disinfected at all, much less before new passengers are taken on board,” WHO said.
  
  “When patients are turned away at Ebola treatment centers, they have no choice but to return to their communities and homes, where they inevitably infect others, perpetuating constantly higher flare-ups in the number of cases.”
  
  The need for beds, supplies and staff have “completely outstripped” capacity, both of the Liberia government and of outside groups such as Who and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) to help.
  
  Healthcare workers are being especially hard hit. “Some 152 health care workers have been infected and 79 have died,” WHO said. When the outbreak began, Liberia had only one doctor to treat nearly 100,000 people in a total population of 4.4 million people. Every infection or death of a doctor or nurse depletes response capacity significantly.”
  
  "Motorbike-taxis and regular taxis are a hot source of potential Ebola virus transmission."
  
  One WHO doctor in Sierra Leone is sick and will be sent out of the country for treatment, WHO said, but declined to say where the doctor was from.
  
  Three of the healthcare workers affected were American medical missionaries working for the groups Samaritan’s Purse and SIM USA in Monrovia. All three were evacuated to the U.S. Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol have recovered, while Dr. Rick Sacra is being treated at the University of Nebraska’s special biocontainment unit.
  
  Debbie Sacra said her husband, a 51-year-old family physician, was eating and listening to music while he receives an experimental drug.
  
  “He had some breakfast this morning, which is a change,” Debbie Sacra said in a statement. “He hasn’t been able to eat much since he got here, but he had some toast and apple sauce. He also tolerated the research drug well — better than he had the previous doses he was given.”
  
  The hospital hasn’t said what treatment Sacra is receiving. Brantly and Writebol each received one treatment course of ZMapp, an experimental drug made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc, but doctors stress they cannot tell if it helped.
  
  “It’s hard to derive a lot of meaningful data from the care of just two patients,” said Dr. Aneesh Mehta, one of the medical team at Emory University Hospital who treated Brantly and Writebol. High quality nutrition given intravenously may have helped, Mehta said, as did carefully balanced fluid replacement formulas. Ebola patients often suffer intense vomiting and diarrhea.
  
  The epidemic has demonstrated “how one disease outbreak can cause a whole country to go into crisis,” said Dr. Barbara Knust, team leader for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Ebola response.
  
  “The Ebola outbreak has just driven home the inadequacy that’s there,” Knust told an American Society for Microbiology meeting.

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• Boss 11 years ago

  I sincerely wish that this can be translated into action. From all indications the Nigerian government has failed to contain boko haram. This really requires a regional response. Boko haram can spread like cancer if it is not ...
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  I sincerely wish that this can be translated into action. From all indications the Nigerian government has failed to contain boko haram. This really requires a regional response. Boko haram can spread like cancer if it is not contained. As the years go by it becomes more difficult as they grow roots. Such is the situation now with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. There must be a huge ecowas military action to contain them. It must be done now.
  
  Ebola, we clearly need a game plan to stop its spread. It will require a regional response. Please lets not look to the west. If the worse starts to happen, they will simply move their people out and leave us to our fate. These are real and critical issues. Lets seek a regional solution.

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• Musa K. 11 years ago

  Fighting Boko Haram is not as easy as many think! When these insurgents are attacked they quickly blend in with the civilian populace. Soldiers then cannot tell who is an insurgent from who is not.
  
  The insurgents regroup l ...
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  Fighting Boko Haram is not as easy as many think! When these insurgents are attacked they quickly blend in with the civilian populace. Soldiers then cannot tell who is an insurgent from who is not.
  
  The insurgents regroup later when the threat of attack by soldiers subsides, and then start again devastating villages, towns and cities with lax security systems.
  
  Possible solution
  
  All noncombatants living in areas occupied by Boko Haram should be encouraged to leave their cities, towns, and villages and head south.
  Next, the government can start relentless aerial bombardments until not a single cell of the home grown cancer called Boko Haram Haram is left.

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• Kwawu Agbemenu 11 years ago

  Why military men & officials?Shouldn't health ministers & experts be the ones to discuss the ebola problem? And how long should it take defence personnel to discuss and take action on security threats??

  Why military men & officials?Shouldn't health ministers & experts be the ones to discuss the ebola problem? And how long should it take defence personnel to discuss and take action on security threats??

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