Action Against Hunger, in partnership with Agence Française de Développement (AFD), has provided an ambulance to the Nimba County health team in Liberia.

The donation, which was made at the Nimba County health team office in Sanniquellie, was part of efforts geared towards mitigating the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The AFD emergency response to Covid-19 project is being implemented in Nimba, Montserrado, and Margibi counties.

Nimba County, which is close to Guinea and the Ivory Coast where high cases of Covid-19 have been reported, accounts for 72 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with 11 deaths and 61 recoveries.

Action Against Hunger Emergency Coordinator, Rachel Jlateh, said, ‘We have been working in Nimba and it has been unique because there is no other partner working with the county health team so we have been implementing Covid-19 project, which include health support with infection, prevention and control’.

Jlateh said that some of the deliverables included support to staff, support to Covid-19 surveillance and distribution of infection, prevention and control to health centres.

Nimba County Health Officer, Dr Netty Joe, expressed gratitude to the Ministry of Health for working with Action Against Hunger to support the health team.

Joe said, ‘A good referral in the county requires reflection on capacity to handle emergency. We have few ambulances but most of them are down now.

‘If we spend money, after one month, [it is] down. Most of our funding is used to repair ambulance. Sometimes, when you give our financial report, people are more concerned about money used to repair ambulance’.

The current AFD emergency response to Covid-19 aims to flatten the curve of the pandemic and provide more time for response and smoothen the impact for the most vulnerable people.

Source: FrontPage Africa

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