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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Sierra Leone News : Koindu Town Chief Dies as Ebola Makes a U-turn in Kissi Teng


By Augustine Samba & Jeneba V. Kabba
Aug 29, 2014, 17:12


The Town of Koindu in the Kissi Teng Chiefdom Kailahun District, Chief Moses Foryoh who doubles as Bursar of the Kissi Bendu Secondary School, on Thursday 28th August 2014 died at the Kaiya Ebola Isolation Center in Koindu. The death of the chief has created panic and standstill in the Koindu Township and its environs according to sources. Relatives of the deceased told our reporters that he just collapsed last Wednesday and was taken to the isolation center for medical examinations.

“He did not complain of any sickness, he fell down just after bath and as we rushed to help him the medical personnel advised us not to touch him and was taken to the isolation center” our source revealed.
  

Chief Moses Foryoh popularly known as ‘American’

Nearly ninety residents including two local authorities in Kissi Teng Chiefdom alone have died since the outbreak of the Ebola disease in May this year. BBC Focus on Africa last evening quoted World Health Organization (WHO) as saying about twenty thousand people may likely contact the Ebola Disease before it will be contained in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Over three thousand people have already been infected and nearly fifteen hundred people have died in the three countries.

Kissi Teng Chiefdom in Sierra Leone shares borders with Guinea and Liberia around where the Ebola outbreak was first detected in the country. Few weeks ago, residents of Kissi Teng told this newspaper that the Ebola crisis was relative calm and according to them nobody was infected with the virus for quiet some weeks.

However, as recently as three weeks, the community that was calm has lost its Local Councilor and some other residents including the Town Chief. http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200526098.shtml