Situation Overview
The latest WHO Ebola Response Roadmap Update reports 6,263EVD cases in West Africa; WHO has advised that despite the opening of new Ebola Treatment Units, there is still not enough capacity of beds to meet demand in Sierra Leone and Liberia.The Roadmap is available here: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/134771/1/roadmapsitrep_24Sept20....
The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER)advance teams have deployed to mission headquarters in Accra, Ghana and the affected countries (Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone).
UNMEER is expected to provide the operational framework and unity of purpose to ensure the rapid, effective and coherent action necessary to stop the Ebola outbreak, to treat the infected, to ensure essential services, to preserve stability and to prevent the spread to countries currently not affected.Once operational, the mission headquarters will be located in Accra, Ghana with some coordination functions remaining in New York.
Two major security incidents have been reported in Guinea involving the local population, with both situations leading to casualties and deaths of humanitarian workers responding the Ebola Outbreak.
The humanitarian community has now been given three months government approval for the humanitarian air-bridge between Dakar, Senegal and the three affected countries; construction of the specialised humanitarian passenger terminal at Dakar Airport was completed and the first UNHAS flight took place on 25 September. More information on a regular UNHAS schedule will be available soon.
