No food for quarantine people
In his reflection message to the nation, His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma assured the nation that all quarantined areas will be supplied with food which was accepted in good faith in order to free Sierra Leoneans from the claws of this deadly killer disease.
Recent revelations oozing from the quarantined areas of Kenema, Kailahun and even the Capital city of Freetown, Syke Street to be precise, have all indicated that the people quarantined are presently seriously suffering from hunger.
We don’t need to remind this government that most citizens live hand to mouth and quarantining those means they are left with no option but to entirely depend on the Ministry for their daily survival. If the provision of basic food for the few quarantined people is presently a challenge to the Ministry what will happen if the number in quarantined areas increases?
Understandably, we are of the view that quarantine people should be under constant observation but we have also learnt that not even the temperatures of those quarantined are been monitored, which is another serious concern. The purpose of quarantining is for effective monitoring so as to check out those who may have contracted the virus and to avoid its further spread to others in the Community, but failing to monitor them means you shouldn’t have quarantined them.
We are calling on the Health Ministry to step up their surveillance mechanism so that this menace can be eradicated as early as possible.
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