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'కాపు, బలిజ కులస్తులకు సముచిత స్థానం కల్పించాలి'
కాపు,బలిజ కులస్తులకు సముచిత స్థానం కల్పిస్తూ.. ప్రభుత్వ నామినేటెడ్ పదవులతో పాటు మంత్రి వర్గంలో ప్రాతినిధ్యం కల్పించాలని ఆ వర్గాల నాయకులు కోరారు.
'కాపు, బలిజ కులస్తులకు సముచిత స్థానం కల్పించాలి'
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Published : Jun 13, 2019, 6:06 PM IST
'కాపు, బలిజ కులస్తులకు సముచిత స్థానం కల్పించాలి' నామినేటెడ్ పదవుల కేటాయింపులో తమ వర్గానికీ ప్రాధాన్యం ఇవ్వాలని కాపు బలిజ సంఘం నాయకులు కోరారు. మంత్రివర్గంలో ప్రాతినిధ్యం కల్పించాలన్నారు. రాబోయే స్థానిక సంస్థల, నగరపాలక సంస్థల ఎన్నికల్లో కాపు , బలిజలకు సముచిత స్థానం కల్పించాలని విజయవాడలో కోరారు. ప్రతి ఏడాది lమ కార్పొరేషన్కు 2 వేల కోట్లు కేటాయించాలని డిమాండ్ చేశారు.
'కాపు, బలిజ కులస్తులకు సముచిత స్థానం కల్పించాలి' నామినేటెడ్ పదవుల కేటాయింపులో తమ వర్గానికీ ప్రాధాన్యం ఇవ్వాలని కాపు బలిజ సంఘం నాయకులు కోరారు. మంత్రివర్గంలో ప్రాతినిధ్యం కల్పించాలన్నారు. రాబోయే స్థానిక సంస్థల, నగరపాలక సంస్థల ఎన్నికల్లో కాపు , బలిజలకు సముచిత స్థానం కల్పించాలని విజయవాడలో కోరారు. ప్రతి ఏడాది lమ కార్పొరేషన్కు 2 వేల కోట్లు కేటాయించాలని డిమాండ్ చేశారు.
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UGANDA EBOLA
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Mpondwe, Uganda- DRC border checkpoint – 7 June 2019
1. Man on megaphone telling people to wash hands
2. Various of Ebola poster at border and people passing by
3. Wide of man speaking through megaphone next to border sign reading "Mpondwe – Lhubiriha town council"
4. Various people washing hands
5. Red cross volunteer with face shield
6. Woman returning to wash hands as man adds disinfection liquid into tank
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francis Tumwine, Ugandan Red Cross
"All are supposed first to wash their hands as you can see. After washing their hands, then they go into the screening house for temperature taking. Than after that, we are very privileged to be having a thermal scanner which is helping us in temperature taking as it scans all the travellers who are passing around. Then in the case where we get someone with high temperature, we consider the temperature threshold 38 and above. So, in case we get someone with high temperature we isolate that person, we have the isolation room up there. We isolate that person for first 15 minutes as we are taking history of that person and we discover what is the cause of (their) high temperature."
8. Various of people going into screening house
9. Mid of Red Cross volunteer with protective mask on her face
10. Mid of volunteer Red Cross worker telling woman to remove her head scarf
11. Various of people going through inside of screening unit walking past monitor and camera
12. Close of monitor showing people walking past and their temperature
13. Close of camera
14. Wide of staff in unit
15. Mid of people filing past
16. Close of feet of people walking by
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francis Tumwine, Ugandan Red Cross
"The challenges of course, the first of all is the stubbornness of Congolese here. Some Congolese they see us here, they tell us that we are doing nothing here, because for them even from their country they have failed to understand that Ebola is there, they think that it is witchcraft which is killing them there in (DR) Congo."
14. Various of disabled men arriving and disinfecting their hands
15. Mid of Red Cross volunteer moving around people with hand held thermometer
16. Mid of volunteer's hands with thermometers
17. SOUNDBITE: (Kiswahili - paraphrased) Muhindo Kaongezekela, egg trader from DRC
"We are not sure if there's Ebola in Congo. In Congo if they find you with a headache they take you to the hospital and later say they died of Ebola. If the person spends three to two days they diagnose Ebola, yet all he had was a headache. (If) the patient spends three days in the hospital then they call their family and say your relative died because of Ebola yet it was a headache, or high blood pressure, but they say its Ebola."
18. Various people at the border carrying things
19. Wide of the border checkpoint with people and lorries crossing and a herd of goats at the side
20. Mid of herds of goats
21. Mid of lorry waiting at checkpoint
22. Mid of Red Cross worker pinning Ebola information poster to a wall
23. Close of the Red Cross sign on the volunteer's tabard
24. Various close of poster
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Bwera, Uganda - 7 June 2019
25. Various of entrance to Bwera referral hospital
26. Mid of Dr. Alphonse Semugaza Gatare the Medical Superintendant of Bewra general hospital at his desk working
27. Close of Dr. Gatare taking notes
28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Alphonse Semugaza Gatare, Medical Superintendant, Bewra General Hospital
"We have a ramshackle isolation ward outside the hospital, but we have also Ebola treatment center, which was established by various organizations in support of ministry of health. So that this is where we admit these suspected cases."
29. Close of stethoscope and doctor's name on coat
30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Alphonse Semugaza Gatare, Medical Superintendant, Bewra General Hospital
"We have staff who are trained in the management of Ebola prevention and preparedness with all equipment."
31. Wide exterior of isolation ward and hand washing area
32. Wide of hand washing area
33. Wide of man putting on protection suit
34. Close of box filled with medical equipment being emptied onto table
35. Mid of staff helping man in protective clothing to put on gloves
36. Wide of sample tray on shelf
37. Mid tilt down of colleague helping man in prot
ective suit put on face mask
38. Wide of waste bins
39. Mid rear of man in protective suit
40. Close of red bin with the sign reading: "Highly infectious waste"
41. Various of man in protective suit walking about the ward
42. Wide exterior pan from treatment centre to the hospital building
LEADIN:
The Ebola outbreak in DRC may be upgraded to an international public health emergency at a meeting of an expert panel at the World Health Organisation tomorrow (Friday 14 June).
The virus has already spread to neighbouring Uganda where a young boy and his grandmother became the first confirmed Ebola deaths outside DRC.
There's concern it could grow like the West African epidemic which killed more than eleven thousand people.
STORYLINE:
This is Uganda's border check with DRC, it was introduced last August, but now there is an added anxiety.
Health workers have feared it would just be a matter of time before the deadly virus began to cross borders from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A second person infected with the Ebola virus has died in Uganda, the health ministry said Thursday, after a family exposed to the disease quietly crossed the border from Congo.
Uganda health ministry spokesman Emmanuel Ainebyoona confirmed the death of the 50-year-old woman overnight.
Her 5-year-old grandson was the first confirmed death from Ebola in Uganda on Wednesday. The boy's 3-year-old brother also is infected.
It's believed to have been spread to Uganda after a family exposed to the disease quietly crossed the border from Congo.
Everyone is now expectant, watching, waiting for the World Health Organisation to declare this outbreak a public health emergency of international proportions.
This usually means an increase in resources.
More than 1,400 people have died in this outbreak declared in August in eastern Congo, one of the world's most turbulent regions, where rebel attacks and resistance by community members wary of authorities have badly hampered Ebola containment work.
At the back of everyone's mind is the West African Ebola Epidemic which spread through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Between 2014 and 2016 28,616 people were infected and 11,310 were killed.
Authorities on Wednesday said the family had traveled from Uganda to Congo because the boys' grandfather was ill. WHO said he died of Ebola, and officials believe those who mourned him became infected, too.
While returning to Uganda, the group including several other children was stopped at a Congolese border post. A dozen members of the group already showed symptoms of Ebola. While awaiting transfer to an Ebola treatment unit, six family members slipped away and crossed into Uganda on an unguarded footpath, authorities told The Associated Press.
Authorities in both countries now vow to step up border security.
Uganda has now identified seven suspected Ebola cases, and about 50 contacts of the family are being traced there. Five family members who did not cross into Uganda have tested positive for Ebola, Congo's health ministry said.
Francis Tumwine of the Ugandan Red Cross explains how they are trying to screen people going through the border.
"All are supposed first to wash their hands as you can see. After washing their hands, then they go into the screening house for temperature taking. Than after that, we are very privileged to be having a thermal scanner which is helping us in temperature taking as it scans all the travellers who are passing around. Then in the case where we get someone with high temperature, we consider the temperature threshold 38 and above. So, in case we get someone with high temperature we isolate that person, we have the isolation room up there. We isolate that person for first 15 minutes as we are taking history of that person and we discover what is the cause of (their) high temperature," says Tumwine.
People who refuse to be checked are being turned back to DRC.
Tumwine explained that health workers at the border battle the belief of some Congolese people who do not believe Ebola is present in DRC.
The WHO has admitted violence from rebel attacks and superstition has been a major obstacle for medical aid agencies working in the turbulent region of eastern Congo.
Tumwine says: "The challenges of course, the first of all is the stubbornness of Congolese here. Some Congolese they see us here, they tell us that we are doing nothing here, because for them even from their country they have failed to understand that Ebola is there, they think that it is witchcraft which is killing them there in (DR) Congo."
The case of the infected family which crossed into Uganda shows the difficulty in tracking people. An alarmingly high percentage of cases aren't discovered until it is too late.
Doctors Without Borders last month said as few as a third of new confirmed Ebola cases were linked back to known contacts of infected people.
On market day twice a week over 20,000 people cross the border here.
Egg trader Muhindo Kaongezekela is one of them.
He expresses suspicion and disbelief about the severity of the Ebola virus.
He tells Associated Press "We are not sure if there's Ebola in Congo. In Congo if they find you with a headache they take you to the hospital and later say they died of Ebola."
According to Kaongezekela: "If the person spends three to two days they diagnose Ebola, yet all he had was a headache. (If) the patient spends three days in the hospital then they call their family and say your relative died because of Ebola yet it was a headache, or high blood pressure, but they say its Ebola."
The Congolese living close to the Ugandan border also come here for medical help at Bewra regional hospital.
The Medical Superintendant of Bewra general hospital Dr. Alphonse Semugaza Gatare confirms that more than twenty over 20 Congolese people arrive here on a daily basis.
Describing the facilities here Gatare says: "We have a ramshackle isolation ward outside the hospital, but we have also Ebola treatment center, which was established by various organizations in support of ministry of health. So that this is where we admit those suspected cases."
He says: "We have staff who are trained in the management of Ebola prevention and preparedness with all equipment."
Out the back is the isolation ward for people who've been infected with Ebola.
A member of staff empties a box to show the equipment they have the basics, bags of syringes.
Congo's health ministry said all members of the infected Congolese-Ugandan family have agreed to be repatriated to Congo for experimental treatments as part of clinical trials.
There is no licensed treatment for the hemorrhagic fever which can spread quickly via close contact with bodily fluids of those infected and can be fatal in up to 90% of cases.
For the first time an experimental but effective Ebola vaccine is being widely used, with more than 132,000 in Congo receiving it.
Uganda is more stable than eastern Congo, and it has vaccinated nearly 4,700 health workers. WHO is shipping another 3,500 doses this week for health workers and contacts of those infected.
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