Sierra Leone says it has sacked the country’s Health Minister over the handling of the Ebola virus outbreak that has plagued the West African sub region.
President Ernest Bai Koroma dismissed the Health Minister Miatta Kargbo on Friday due to her poor management of the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 400 people in Sierra Leone.
A presidency statement said that Kargbo was removed “to create a conducive environment for efficient and effective handling of the Ebola outbreak”. She will be replaced by her deputy Dr Abubakarr Fofanah, the statement said.
Sierra Leone is among the three countries worst hit by the recent Ebola outbreak which has been described as the worst outbreak to hit the West African region.
More than 3,000 people have been infected since the virus was detected in the remote jungles of southeastern Guinea early this year. It quickly spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, and Senegal reported its first case on Friday.
Separately, the United Nations will use Ghana as a base for supplies bound for countries stricken by an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,550 people in West Africa, the Ghanaian presidency said in a statement.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon had a telephone conversation on Friday evening with Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama, who agreed to let international agencies use Ghana’s capital Accra as a base for air lifting supplies and personnel to affected countries, the statement said.
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