Chief
Executive Officer, Managing Director, Amar Deep Singh Hari, who disclosed this
to Luv News, says a unique telephone number has been allocated for the company to
operationalize the service.
“We
have trained call centre agents to be sitting on this helpline and anybody who
has enquiries regarding what is Ebola, how Ebola gets spread, if they have any
family member who gets sick, if they want Ambulance service and anything
regarding Ebola, they can call this helpline and the agents at the call centre
will be assisting,” he said.
IPMC
on Friday embarked on a one-day nationwide Ebola awareness campaign under the
title: “Get Smart to Prevent Ebola”.
Over
1,500 volunteers signed up to be engaged on twenty locations across the country
to sensitize people in communities about Ebola.
“They
are going from house-to-house, shop-to-shop, meeting individuals and families
and by the end of the day, they should be able to talk to 200 thousand
individuals about Ebola awareness,” noted Mr. Hari.
He
says IPMC is supporting the awareness creation on Ebola prevention at the country
level because “each one of us must behave and act responsibility” and also need
to get smart so that “we keep ourselves ready internally”.
The latest Ebola patient is a two-year-old girl who
recently arrived in Mali from Guinea, which along with Liberia and Sierra Leone
has seen most of the 4,800 deaths.
Symptoms of the Ebola virus disease
include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage. It is spread by
body fluids, such as blood and saliva with fatality rate reaching 90% with no
proven cure.
Ghana
has been on high alert for any possible outbreak of Ebola in the country.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced
that hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses should be available in the first
half of 2015.
Story by Kofi Adu Domfeh
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