国际移民组织11月10日称埃博拉防控已支持逾5500万人次旅客筛查：在刚果民主共和国流动人群中发现71例确诊病例
日内瓦 — 国际移民组织区域埃博拉协调员安德鲁姆巴拉博士 11 月 10 日在日内瓦简报会上说，埃博拉响应的前线不只在治疗中心、隔离病房与医院，也在边境口岸、港口、机场、交通枢纽、流离失所者安置点、市场与连接各社区与省份的人员流动通道上。
姆巴拉说，当官方边境口岸关闭或受限时，人员流动不会停止，人们仍因贸易、家庭、服务与生计原因出行，常走非正式路线，因此埃博拉防范不能止于官方入境点。
他说，在刚果民主共和国东部，疫情传播集中在伊图里省与北基伍省，这两个省与邻国有广泛的贸易路线、人口流动与跨境联系。
姆巴拉表示，自本轮疫情开始以来，移民组织团队已在受影响与高风险国家支持了 5500 多万人次旅客筛查，约合每天 35 万人次，移民组织在刚果民主共和国支持的入境点与管控点疾病监测已在流动人群中发现 71 例埃博拉确诊病例。
他说，移民组织面临 5980 万美元资金缺口，其多国防范与响应计划的申请总额为 1.1 亿美元。
姆巴拉还说，移民组织并不管理金贡泽流离失所者营地，该营地因安全原因关闭时收容了 1200 名埃博拉接触者，伙伴机构一直在努力确保这些接触者在社区中得到识别。
世界卫生组织发言人克里斯蒂安林德迈尔在同一简报会上表示，这类筛查是对人们的一项重要服务，用以发现其是否感染埃博拉、霍乱或任何其他疾病并获得帮助与治疗。
IOM Says on November 10 That Ebola Preparedness Work Has Supported More Than 55 Million Traveller Screenings, With 71 Confirmed Cases Found Among Mobile Populations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Geneva — Dr Andrew Mbala, the International Organization for Migration's Regional Ebola Coordinator, told a Geneva briefing on November 10 that the frontlines of an Ebola response were not only treatment centres, isolation wards and hospitals, but also border crossings, ports, airports, transit hubs, displacement sites, markets and the mobility corridors connecting communities and provinces.
Mbala said that when official border crossings were closed or restricted, movement did not stop, as people continued to travel for trade, family reasons, access to services and livelihoods, often using informal routes, so Ebola preparedness must extend beyond the official point of entry.
Transmission in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo was concentrated in Ituri and North Kivu, provinces linked by extensive trade routes, population movements and cross-border connections with neighbouring countries, he said.
Since the start of the current outbreak, IOM teams had supported more than 55 million traveller screenings, about 350,000 screenings per day, in affected and at-risk countries, Mbala said, and disease surveillance at IOM supported points of entry and points of control inside the country had identified 71 confirmed Ebola cases among mobile populations.
IOM faced a USD 59.8 million funding gap, out of a request of USD 110 million for a multi-country preparedness and response plan, he said.
Mbala also said IOM was not managing the Kigonze camp for internally displaced people, and that when that camp was closed for security reasons it hosted 1,200 Ebola contacts, with partners working to make sure those contacts were identified within the community.
Christian Lindmeier, speaking for the World Health Organization at the same briefing, said the screenings were an important service to people, to detect whether they were infected with Ebola, cholera or any other disease and get help and treatment.
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