Once the psychological support is in place and the family is accepting of the result and understands what it means, our surveillance team will go deeper into an investigation we launched when we validated the case as suspected. In this case we arrange a safe and dignified burial. We are some times also called after a community death. All the patients are receiving psychological support, and all the patients have the right to have a family member there, although direct contact is not allowed. All of those patients are receiving the vital support. All of the patients are receiving the treatment. If the person comes early, if they come late, they are treated at the same level. Once we check all the biological functions of the person, the committee dealing with the treatment meet and decide what the best option available is. We make some laboratory analyses to see if the kidneys are OK, if the heart is OK. In the Ebola treatment centre, we make sure that every treatment is available to the patient. Sometimes they keep the patient and then the patient infects other people in the health structure.ДЄfter the patient is informed of a positive result, the team will go to the family to tell them and offer psychological support. So when they refer the patient quickly, they say that they are not earning anything. The problem that we have is that 90-95% of the health structure is private.

One of the main difficulties weвЂ™re having is when a doctor within the local health structure suspects someone of having Ebola they are not calling quickly. But if you go 10 days after symptoms begin, you have a 95% chance of dying. If you get to a treatment centre in the first two days of symptoms, you have a 95% chance of being healed. At this point, we put all pillars of our response plan into action.Д®bola is not killing you spontaneously, there is time to go for help.

If the sample is positive, we now know we have an Ebola case. This is important because it is a deadly disease that can kill several family members at the same time, people are often stigmatised when they have it, and some people think they have Ebola because they have done something wrong. Throughout this time, the patient will be receiving psychological support. The person is then transferred to an Ebola treatment centre for the sample to be collected and analysed. When we suspect a case, only a laboratory can say it is or it is not. To distinguish a case of Ebola we have to make a sample. If this is the case, they will refer this person to a health centre where the health worker has to refer this person to the Ebola team if the symptoms are the same as those seen in Ebola. Members of the community go between houses to detect if someone is sick. We have put in place what we call a surveillance system. We have found people who have escaped and have gone to hide themselves to die. HeвЂ™s looking at you with some anxiety, some fear of dying. ItвЂ™s like someone who is very ill with a lot of pain in his body. When you are very accustomed to seeing people with Ebola, you can distinguish an Ebola sufferer with the most severe symptoms. When we get into the last stages of symptoms, we have very pronounced asthenia, when the person becomes very weak.Д®bola patients look like any person who is sick. After five to seven days, we can begin to see haemorrhagic symptoms. For example, you can have diarrhoea, you can also have a higher fever. After two days, there will be an exacerbation of these symptoms and others may be exposed.

It can begin with abdominal aches, headaches, sore throats, fevers. The symptoms are very, very similar to lots of other diseases, like malaria for example. When someone is suspected to have the virus, we must quickly get samples to check and confirm that. Here, Marie Roseline talks us though the process of trying to contain Ebola. Haitian doctor Marie Roseline Darnycka Belizaire is helping lead the WHOвЂ™s efforts to tackle the disease in the DRC, where additional challenges include armed conflict, tough terrain and widespread fear and suspicion. The second-deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, it has killed more than 1,600 people so far and the numbers are rising. Marie Roseline Darnycka Belizaire (L) helps to lead WHO efforts to tackle Ebola in the Democratic Republic of CongoДЇor health workers on the frontlines of the battle against Ebola, time means everything.Д®arlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international health emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after an outbreak of Ebola.

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