HIGHLIGHTS
IOM’s National Ebola Training Academy has now trained over 4,000 health care workers as of 28 February. A week long mobile training course is ongoing in Bombali district for two teams of 27 decontamination workers.
IOM’s Health and Humanitarian Border Management team successfully concluded a second Emergency Simulation Exercise on 23 February. The team will now lead a rapid two day border assessment to Kambia district on 2-3 March involving a number of government and UN agencies. Four additional rapid assessment missions will be held during March.
IOM continues interim home care kit distribution through implementing partner, Oxfam’s in the Western Area in, with a total of 202 kits distributed to date. IOM and its’ implementation partners, Oxfam and ACF, held a lessons-learned meeting on 24 February. The objectives were to spread best-practices and increase the responsiveness of distribution to epidemiological trends.
IOM and World Hope International’s social mobilization pillar support teams in Bombali district continue intensive community engagement in Rosanda in Paki Masabom chiefdom and Kapethe in Biriwa chiefdom. As an Ebola hotspot, ten homes have been quarantined in Rosanda and the entire village of 36 homes was put under isolation on 25 February. In the past 72 hours there has been a spike of 31 cases in the area