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- 25/05/17 - Emergency to Take Part in Brussels Conference on Migration
- 10/02/17 - Gino Strada, Renzo Piano and President Museveni place
the first stone of the new Centre of excellence for Paediatric Surgery in
Uganda
- 03/02/17 - The 2017 Sunhak Peace Prize Award Ceremony acceptance Speech of Dr. Gino Strada
- 23/09/16 - Road Accidents: Sierra Leone's Mass Casualties
Apart from treating the patients, prevention plays a key role in the fight against Ebola. That's why on the beginning of December, 2014, we opened a First Aid Post (FAP) in Waterloo, a refugee camp where 22,000 people are crammed into overcrowded, decaying huts. Like in many other parts of the capital, there were no healthcare facilities in the camp able to provide a quick response in the event of a suspected infection.
At the EMERGENCY FAP, four nurses carried out triage on the suspected cases, transferring them to the Goderich Ebola Treatment Unit if necessary.
The community's help has been essential for halting the spread of the infection: this is reason why we trained 90 health workers able to identify people in the camp who've come into contact with Ebola patients, and to monitor them daily.
Identifying, isolating and treating Ebola patients is the best way to prevent the virus from spreading throughout the community.
- EMERGENCY First Aid Post in Waterloo
- During the health workers training
- During the health workers training
- EMERGENCY First Aid Post in Waterloo
(Photo: Gianluca Cecere, Michael Duff)