Via Le Jour: Ebola: the Central Pharmacy of Guinea flies to rescue the affected prefectures. Excerpt from a Google translation:
Ebola fever raging in Forest Guinea since last February. The Central Pharmacy of Guinea on behalf of the Guinean government has reinforced the availability of drugs in the prefectures affected by Ebola.
To this end, a large consignment of drugs was sent this Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in several health facilities in Kissidougou and Guéckédou. Has it learned that the official presentation of these batches of medicines was made by the Health Minister, Colonel Remy Lamah accompanied by the Director General of the Central Pharmacy of Guinea, Dr. Moussa Konaté.
The act (donation) was a relief for health workers who are under attack since the declaration of the Ebola epidemic. The attendance rate structures by the population increased in health facilities.
He recalled that since the outbreak of the epidemic, the government and the technical and financial partners were deployed to provide assistance in the region. An isolation center has also been created by "Médecins Sans Frontières" Belgium Guekedou to dispel the spread of the epidemic.
Note that, at Gueckedou 61 cases were detected, including 45 deaths. While in Macenta 19 cases are reported including 12 deaths and Kissidougou 7 cases with 5 deaths identified, reveals Dr Sakoba Keita.
In Conakry, also 3 suspected cases that had been reported and have two (2) deaths were negative after a test conducted at the Pasteur Institute in Senegal. However, the nature of the virus that has killed two people is not yet known.
If this report's numbers are correct, Guinea has so far experienced 87 cases and 62 deaths: a 71% case fatality rate.