6 October, 2014 - Combined Ebola Operations Update No. 3
Summary
To help National Societies to combat Ebola, IFRC has launched international emergency appeals in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal. IFRC continues to support through a 5 pillar approach spelled out in the Ebola regional framework comprising: (1) Beneficiary Communication and Social Mobilization; (2) Contact Tracing and Surveillance; (3) Psychosocial Support; (4) Case Management; as well as (5) Dead Body Management, Burials and Disinfection. An additional regional appeal has been launched to cater to multi-country support needs.
IFRC also continues to support smaller preparedness and response operations financed under IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) in Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Kenya and Gambia.
According to the latest figures from WHO, 7,963 cases and 3,726 deaths have been reported in the current outbreak of Ebola. Exposure of Health-Care Workers (HCWs) to Ebola continues to be an alarming feature of this outbreak. As of 4 October, 382 HCWs are known to have contracted the disease (69 in Guinea, 188 in Liberia,11 in Nigeria and 114 in Sierra Leone). 216 HCWs have died as a result of Ebola (35 in Guinea, 94 in Liberia, 5 in Nigeria and 82 in Sierra Leone).
IFRC and partners continue to support the implementation of preventive and control measures in affected countries. Operations managers report 2,660 dead bodies managed by national societies, 4,203 trained RC volunteers active in Ebola; 35,498 contacts traced; 16,532 houses disinfected, over 2 million people reached through social mobilization and 3,017 people reached through Psychosocial Support.