HIGHLIGHTS
• The mobile outreach team from IOM’s ETU in Buchanan, Liberia provided routine vaccination and primary health care services to 115 villagers.
• IOM was named the secretariat of the Border Coordination Group, under the Chairmanship of the Government of Liberia’s Presidential Advisory Committee for Ebola.
• 167 emergency interim care kits distributed in the Western Area, Sierra Leone, in the Kontolloh and John Thorpe wards, recently placed under quarantine, due to a rise in EVD cases.
• IOM, in partnership with World Hope International (WHI), met with over 200 community leaders in the chiefdoms of Gbendebu Ngowahun and Magbainba Ndowahun in Bombali district, Sierra Leone, to discuss safe, culturally-sensitive burial practices.
• The National Ebola Training Academy in Freetown, Sierra Leone has trained a total of 3,326 health care workers as of 14 February.
• From 1-31 January 2015, a total of 71,195 travellers were screened and recorded at 15 Flow Monitoring Points throughout Mali.