Sometimes it takes Ebola Lab Technicians two to three days before they collect swab samples and afterwards it again takes a couple of days before results are known.
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By Saffa Moriba | October 10, 2014
A Science Teacher at the Nasir Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School in Kenema, Ambrose Mohamed Koroma alias Bobizola has called on government, local and international organizations and the district health management teams across the nation to decentralize Ebola Burial Teams by training other people at chiefdom level.
He said establishing burial teams at chiefdom level will ease pressure on existing teams. He maintained that most of the deaths that occur in the community will take three or more days before corpses are buried. He also said sometimes it takes Ebola Lab Technicians two to three days before they collect swab samples and afterwards it again takes a couple of days before results are known. He said by the time some of these corpses are buried, their bodies had gone bad.
He explained that in Kenema, the burial team is based at the Kenema City Council and that in most of the other sixteen chiefdoms especially in hard-to-go areas, it takes days before swabs are collected. He cited as an example, Mondema in the Gorama Mende Chiefdom where a corpse took five days and by the time the team arrived, the bodies had gone bad.
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