The National president of the Ebola Survivors Network of Liberia has sent a rallying call to Ebola survivors to participate in the ongoing research on post-Ebola complications.
The Liberia-US Joint Clinical Research Partnership is seeking to find causes and derive medical solutions to health complications being experienced by Ebola survivors.
The Liberia-US Joint Clinical Research Partnership is seeking to find causes and derive medical solutions to health complications being experienced by Ebola survivors.
Speaking Tuesday at the Effort Baptist Church in Monrovia during the on-going community engagement campaign spearheaded by the Social Mobilization and Communication Department of PREVAIL , Mr. Patrick Seeco Faley, revealed that Ebola survivors are facing serious health problems by the day.
He named some of the health complications as constant high body temperature, persistent internal body pains, poor eyesight, uncontrollable male erection, impotency, weakness, swollen legs and failure to conceive or get pregnant by female Ebola survivors.
Addressing about 300 participants that included Ebola survivors, Ebola contact tracers and community dwellers, Faley stressed that unless Ebola survivors take advantage of the ongoing research by enrolling to participate, they run the risk of living the rest of their lives with various complications.
He noted that the study being conducted by the Partnership for Research on Ebola Virus in Liberia (PREVAIL) has a lifespan of five years, but pointed out that only people who enroll now will benefit from free treatment and only these same individuals will continue to be monitored by PREVAIL during the five-year period of the research.
Mr. Faley, who complained that Ebola survivors are still facing discrimination in the country, blamed some community leaders for discouraging Ebola survivors from enrolling in the research.
Other speakers, including Dr. Jestina Doe-Anderson, a Liberian Medical Research Scientist, Veteran Medical Practitioner Madam Julia Mulbah Lysander and three team members of PREVAIL, explained that the research will for now enroll 1,500 Ebola survivors and will cover nine most-affected Ebola counties.
No comments:
Post a Comment