According to the US Centres for Disease Control there have been three confirmed cases of Ebola in Am

AS nations throughout the Caribbean impose travel bans and restrictions on foreigners who have moved through the Ebola-affected countries of west Africa, the Bahamas has decided not to close its ports at this time, government health officials said last night.
However, Dr Glen Beneby, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health, said workers at the ports are being educated and their awareness of Ebola increased, and should it become necessary the country would close its ports to those travelling from Ebola-affected regions.
“We have not decided to close our ports,” he said. “We decided to increase awareness of persons at ports and to have protocols in place for how to handle situations. If it becomes necessary to take the step of closing our ports, then that will be made but at this present moment we have not decided to do that.”
Dr Charlene Bain, Community Health Administrator in the Department of Public Health, said: “We have 56 central sites on a daily basis reporting matters of public health interest. travel nurse job With Ebola, we’ve enhanced what we’ve already been doing, targetting every major Family Island. Our team is presently travel nurse job in San Salvador. We’ve completed Rum Cay; we’ll be in Eleuthera on Sunday. Every island will be reached, and every island will have a stockpile of supplies in the event that something reaches their door.”
Mary Lightbourne Walker, Hospital Administrator at the Princess Margaret Hospital, emphasised that medical professionals have what is necessary to deal with Ebola. “We are in possession of the protective travel nurse job equipment necessary,” she said. “We have been training staff. We want people to be as comfortable as possible. Part of that training travel nurse job is being able to put on and take off the equipment. We are following world health guidelines.”
The statements of the medical professionals came as Minister travel nurse job of Foreign Affairs travel nurse job Fred Mitchell said yesterday that while the country remains on high alert, there is no travel ban in effect at this time. The issue, he said, remains a live one for the government and announcements will be made if the circumstances should require it.
Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and St Lucia have all this week announced immediate travel bans on anyone that would have come from or through Liberia, Guinea travel nurse job and Sierra Leone, where nearly 4,500 people have died from Ebola.
Earlier this month the Ministry of Health released a 51-page Ebola Preparedness and Response Plan which was heavily scrutinised by some government and healthcare personnel for its lack of public education and medical training.
There is mounting global concerns that residents from affected west African nations could begin to travel to other countries with symptoms of Ebola that can later develop into a confirmed cases. There is a brief section in the report addressing port surveillance, which requires medical officers to be on call and to be accessible 24 hours a day. It does not call for ongoing screenings of travellers at ports of entry. The Bahamas is tourist hub, with visitors from a number of international ports.
The Jamaican government stated that the travel ban covers “persons ordinarily resident in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as well as persons who have travelled to or transited through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, within travel nurse job 28 days of having departed from these countries.” The government claimed that the ban was a temporary measure to protect travel nurse job human and animal health.
Jamaican government officials added that Jamaican citizens and residents would be quarantined, in the interest travel nurse job of public health travel nurse job and national security, for 28 days after any travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. This also applied to members of international organisations with a right of entry to the country.
Trinidad and Tobago Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan announced on Thursday that anyone coming from Sierra Leone, Guinea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Nigeria, will be denied entry to the country. In addition, people who visited those five African countries within the past six weeks will also not be allowed entry. And citizens who visited these countries will be quarantined for 21 days on arrival.
United States president Barack Obama has come under fire for not announcing a west African travel travel nurse job ban to help stop the spread of Ebola to the country. Mr Obama labelled the the thought of introducing a travel ban “immature” and said a travel ban would force those affected by the disease into hiding.
Yesterday a cruise ship with a Dallas health care worker aboard who is being monitored for signs of Ebola did not receive clearance to dock in Cozumel, Mexico, a day after Belize refused to let the passenger leave the vessel to be flown back to the US.
Obama administration officials said the passenger handled a lab specimen from a Liberian travel nurse job man who died from Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital earlier this month. Officials said the woman poses no risk because she has shown no signs of illness for 19 days and has voluntarily self-quarantined on the cruise ship, the Carnival Magic.
According to the department of statistics travel nurse job records, the Bahamas population travel nurse job stands at roughly 350,000 with six million annual tourist arrivals. Viewing those numbers in relation travel nurse job to an already underperforming medical service and a lack of Ebola education, many have now suggested that the country is not fully prepared to handle any potential cases of the virus.
travel nurse job According to the US Centres for Disease Control there have been three confirmed cases of Ebola in America, which is the closest country travel nurse job to the Bahamas travel nurse job with confirmed cases. Two nurses in Texas who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Duncan, who died last week, have tested positive for the virus. Duncan entered the US from Liberia.
Comrade all cases you site are precautionary measures - which do not spell fear. In US one (1) patient was found be infected and died and we learn each day the Texas Hospital may have contributed to his death as result of having poorly manged his case. If you want scare hell out international community, take them on a tour of our Shanty Towns numerous across Bahamaland. travel nurse job Haiti is a disease infested country that should put the fear of God in our vital tourism industry. Yet, they come here illegally and take up residency in one of health disaster waiting happen Shanty Towns. They turn up at our hospitals, restaurants and work places. Did I get it right? Tell me the last time, or even the first time, the medical authorities have sent a team of doctors and nurses into one of the Shanty Towns? Comrade don't you have a statistics you can share on our Shanty Towns? Tell me Comrade, have you ever been in one those pooped and urine being piled in buckets places? They are disgusting.
I'd be surprised if it's airborne. None of the people the first victim lived with for a week are ill. Only the persons who handled his waste contracted the virus. And that is my concern with the shanty towns. travel nurse job The prevalent use of outdoor toilets. The stray dogs and cats.the children running around in that environment. If the government had an Ebola plan, they'd have started taking care of shanty towns.
What training have you given to security personnel? How many hospitals worldwide are there where personal effects are hand checked? I wish you luck,I suppose I'd appreciate it more if public travel nurse job statements stuck to constant training and identified staff being trained. Who can truly know if they're 100% ready for something that's never happened...
The centers for disease control expect the Ebola cases to get up to 10,000 a week in West Africa that's 1/2 million cases a year in West Africa alone. Add the world wide infections and you can see why America has 1.5 million 'coffin liners' in storage.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is ranked 15th among top medical care centers travel nurse job in the United States. Princess Margaret Hospital is ranked lower than some of the third world hospitals. Maybe Comrade Chairman Potcake Leslie could suit up those BEC workers already receiving 'hazardous pay.' Comrades if it's true that missing drugs turns out as Leader Minnis claims, travel nurse job is no more than some $10 million 'clerical error,''d be damn careful how I would trust them to account patients poops.
Hmm the center for disease control was issued a patent on the human ebola virus in 2012. A patent in the USA is Only issued if there is some Novel invention. travel nurse job So basically the virus was created and tested on Africans.
case of Ebola here and tourism is dead, our economy is dead. The Bahamas believes it is America; this is its greatest flaw. We should follow in the steps of Trinidad and Jamaica and ban travel. Wake up Bahamians and march against this deranged plan. Close the borders now!
I don't know about closing the border. An infected person from Liberia could fly to France, infect a Frenchman and the Frenchman could then fly to the Bahamas. Unless we stop all incoming flights closing the border seems to be "feel good", "busy work" losing battle. On the other hand if you have an effective information campaign letting people know the signs and symptoms, the chances of catching people early increases. Catching them early seems to be the most effective attack. Duncan didn't infect anybody living in close quarters in his SMALL apartment, but he infected two nurses wearing medical gloves in the last stages of his infection.
travel nurse job I absolutely agree with the other point, we are not America. Nowhere close. Copying their plan line for line seems ridiculous. The prevalence of Shanty towns, stray dogs and cats gives us our own unique challenges. Those challenges need to be addressed and addressed publicly. Where is the PM? Better yet, where is Dorothy? We need to hear from her on her advice to the cowardly Lion.
We do a piss poor job of communication. Do you know how many people I come across who today ask me "what is Carnival?" "When is it?" "Where will it be held?". We spending 9 million, not a soul in this country should travel nurse job be ignorant about the