Republic of Guinea
is beginning rollout of Kallo’s RuralCare and MobileCare this quarter.
MobileCare is effectively integrated technology and diagnostic equipment, all
delivered by trailer-truck to remote locations. MobileCare clinics include an
aseptic room and a command center that can be linked to a teaching hospital via
satellite, all essentially bringing the hospital to the patient. Kallo’s
RuralCare consists of pre-fabricated modular clinics installed with the latest
surgical, lab, and pharmacy medical equipment. All of this is the beginning of
the $200 million supply contract signed with the Ministry of Health and Public
Hygiene with the Republic of Guinea.
This should help
Guinea reshape a healthcare system that currently is very poorly structured and
severely underfunded. The current outbreak of the Ebola virus in Guinea is a
clear example of just what a disaster healthcare is in Guinea and countries
similar to Guinea as it could have been easily preventable.
There is no cure or
vaccine for the disease, and the symptoms are horrifying. They begin with a
severe headache which turns into a fever, body pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Then for reasons not fully understood, all the blood vessels in one’s body
begin to leak, and this hemorrhaging typically leads to death. Matter of fact,
Ebola is typically fatal for 90% of those that contract the disease. The
disease is believed to be hosted in a species of fruit bat which is eaten and
potentially that is how the disease is spread, or by butchering an animal with
the disease. Human to human direct contact further spreads the disease by
contacting a bodily fluid. Pretty much the only way to treat the disease is to
quarantine the people that have it, and after a period of time, the bulk of the
people die, the disease then apparently appears to burn itself out, and one
sanitizes as much as possible the quarantined area. The disease is frightening
but it simply sickens and kills too quickly to become a threat on some global
scale. One certainly need not fear the disease spreading to the United States.
According to the
World Health Organization (WHO), Ebola outbreaks occur “primarily in remote
villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests. There have been
at least 25 Ebola virus outbreaks in Africa since 1976 with the last in 2012 in
Uganda. Doctors without Borders successfully fought the disease and handed over
an Ebola treatment center they set up to the Ugandan government. As Doctors
without Borders left Uganda, they made it quite clear that they felt the
Ugandan government and their Ministry of Health staff now properly trained can
manage and handle any future outbreak of Ebola virus. So why haven’t
neighboring governments been similarly prepared to prevent and act quickly when
an Ebola outbreak occurs? A matter of weeks ago, Guinea’s Ministry of Health
assured that the current outbreak was contained after over 60 people died from
the infection. Now the death toll has pushed to 136 with 208 reported cases,
and it spread to the neighboring country of Liberia resulting in 34 cases and 6
cases so for in that nation. As a result, the borders between the two countries
have been closed and all airports have strict medical checks.
Some have been
critical of Doctors without Borders for not having the foresight to implement
training programs in other African countries to counter future outbreaks of
Ebola. Doctors without Borders is essentially an NGO or non-government
organization which if you glance over their annual report, primarily gets all
of its funding from Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs. With the exception of
cases regarding self-interests, Wall Street rarely looks beyond short-term
events, so it probably should not be a surprise that Doctors without Borders
only focuses when a bad emergency occurs, and in those cases they do quite
exceptional work. However, counting on Western agencies and NGOs to protect the
health of the global population consistently proves to be a mistake.
There is plenty of
talk about the development of a vaccine and there were a few biotechnology
companies that were working on an Ebola virus vaccine which was being funded by
the Pentagon, and for which the budget was cut under sequestration. As there is
no profit to be derived distributing a vaccine to poverty stricken populations,
there is little expectation of such a vaccine ever being derived. However, a
vaccine won’t solve the underlying problem of constant failure due to
practically no healthcare infrastructure.
The bottom line is
that the African nations must begin taking responsibility themselves for
dealing with outbreaks. All of this demonstrates that the Republic of Guinea
badly needs to develop a functioning healthcare infrastructure and engaging
Kallo is a correct step in that direction.
For more
information, visit www.kalloinc.ca
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