Romania versus Ebola: What steps is the government taking to protect its citizens

Newsroom 16/10/2014 | 16:51

Romania’s government has allocated RON 25 million for the acquisitions of sanitary products necessary in managing an Ebola-related health crisis, writes economica.net.

Health officials made the decision to devote an entire floor of the Matei Bals Infectious Diseases institute in Bucharest to the treatment of potential Ebola cases. The floor is equipped with 15 beds and its own isolated laboratory. The Health ministry will dedficate another section of the National Geriatrics Institute Ana Aslan to the same cause. Here it will build a 20-bed modular hospital.

Outside of Bucharest, infectious disease in three major cities (Cluj, Iasi and Timisoara) have also been prepared to accomodate Ebola patients if the need arises.

Furthermore, the Governement approved the creation of a National coordination committee to handle the crisis and the health officials have prepared a series of procedures to be followed to the letter regarding how to detect cases, set a diagnostic, monitor and treat the patients.

So far, there have been two Ebola suspicions in Romania, but both were refuted following tests, according to Adrian Streinu Cercel, director of Romania’s Contagious Diseases Institute Matei Bals, according to Digi 24 news station.

Every person returning from a west African country is monitored by authorities. Their arrival is signaled when they enter in the country and their health is evaluated. A monitoring period lasts for 21 days and health minister Nicolae Banicioiu stated that at present 20 people are being monitored.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the disease continues to expand geographically and border areas were seeing additional cases.

“Every time you isolate another patient, every time you have a safe burial, you are taking some of the heat out of this outbreak”,  WHO Assistant Director General Dr Bruce Aylward said, quoted by BBC.

He added that the rate of new cases being diagnosed has slowed down in Liberia. 4,500 people have lost their lives since the epidemic broke out.

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