The Member of Parliament of constituency 17 Kenema District, Hon Habib Munda has raised concern over the continuous movement of Ebola patients to the Eastern Region.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Global Times over the weekend, Hon Munda who is also Chairman of the Kenema District Ebola Rapid Response Team said the continuous movements of Ebola patients were, in his words “not in the best interest of the patients themselves or the communities along the high ways”.

He said high way communities are now complaining that Ebola Ambulance drivers were disposing of feaces and vomits of Ebola patients along the highways in the Eastern region which he said was a health hazards.

The Kenema MP called on government to speed up the construction of holding and treatment centres in other regions and urged that the authorities put in place a monitoring mechanism for the movement of ambulances transporting Ebola patients to prevent communities along the high ways from contracting the deadly virus.

On the infection rate in the Kenema district, Hon. Munda said despite recent isolated incidents, the district was relatively free of the virus but vowed that they will not relent until the disease was eradicated in the whole country.

He lamented that the disease struck at the height of the farming period, causing most farmers to abandoned work, adding that the next problem will be hunger caused by food shortage. “As a district we are thinking of ways to assist farmers with seedlings as a post Ebola response measures”, Hon Munda said.