125 admitted in a hospital due to intake of banana juice #rwanda

Despite discharging 121 out of 125 people previously
admitted to Mashesha Health Centre with cases of food
poisoning last week, residents in Gitambi Sector, Rusizi
District were reminded to observe proper hygiene and
sanitation after suspicions of drinking contaminated banana
juice at a wedding ceremony.
The ceremony didn't go down well as the attendants started
complaining of severe fever, headaches, stomach pain and
vomiting, among other symptoms of food poisoning.
Gervais Ndagijimana, the health centre director suspects
poor hygiene during manufacture, handling and storage as
the source of the poisoning.
In Bujumbura, Burundi, health authorities within the armies
in these West and East African regions were urged to put
emphasis on training medical staff and surveillance against
malaria in a three-day forum that included participants
from, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Djibouti,
Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo and
Ghana.
Blooming infections on the African continent have called for
travel bans in some countries and stringent laws on Ebola
patients as it is also illegal in some West African countries
to hide an Ebola patient.
Hope the efforts to develop an Ebola vaccine by the
International consortium pick up since a series of trials on a
group of volunteers in UK, The Gambia and Mali could start
as early as September.
As if these plague problems are not nightmarish enough,
investigations by The New Times indicate that some
unscrupulous doctors actually give out medical leaves
without check-up with a fee ranging between Rwf3,000 and
Rwf5,000.
Employees who seek this option claim that employers are
reluctant to give out these leaves. On arrival to the clinic,
one requests to see the doctor in private. Once in the
consultation room, all you have to say is that you need
medical leave to stay away from work.
Such is the pain. At a fee, the medical ethic is trashed down
the drain, and the productivity of the labour market is
compromised. This had better not get to a cancerous level.
End the vice before it is deep rooted.