Practical measures of prevention against Ebola intensified in Tamanrasset

The health services of Tamanrasset will intensify the practical measures of the prevention against Ebola disease, local officials said Tuesday.
Those measures, already applied on the ground are grouped into three forms, namely the training of private doctors settled in the border areas like In-Guezzam and Tin-Zaouatine, about the appropriate behavior in case of the possible outbreak of this disease and the care of  patients, Head of Epidemiology Service in Tamanrasset hospital said.
Dr. Lyès Akhamouk noted, moreover, the development of material resources for isolation at hospitals in border areas to avoid possible spread of the disease, as well as the strengthening of the equipment (masks, goggles and other) for the protection of medical staff in case of intervention for the isolation of suspected cases.
He stressed that “no case was reported.''
The third preventive measure is the organization, through various media of information, of a broad outreach campaign to raise public awareness of the citizens, notably the travelers to neighboring countries, on how to recognize the disease’s symptoms (fever and hemorrhage) and avoid contact with people who are affected with it.