July 12, 2021
By: Aruna Kamara (Bo)
The Public Relations Officer of DICOVERC in Bo District, Jonathan Hindolo Kurabu has disclosed that in the wake of exponential rise in the number of cumulative confirmed positive COVID-19 cases totaling 147, Bo DICOVERC has recorded one death resulting from the deadly Indian Delta Variant.
According to Mr Kurabu, the deceased, a female (name withheld) tested positive for COVID-19 in Serabu, the District Hotspot of COVID-19 where she was later transferred to Freetown for treatment, but later died.
Mr Kurabu said that what has made the situation worse is the fact that there is only one oxygen machine (OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR) at the Bo Government Hospital which is currently being used on patients with respiratory illnesses.
Civil Society activists in Bo have also raised concern over the one oxygen machine at the Bo Government Hospital and have called on the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and NACOVERC to speedily look into their concern so as to avoid recording a lot of COVID-19 deaths in the district.
“With a cumulative death total of 6, Bo District now records 18 cases in the third wave of the delta variant. Concerns among the public are rife that most of the alarming number of deaths in the District are Covid-19 related and made worse is the fact that swabs are not being done on the corpses before burial in order to ascertain cause of death,” Mr. Kurabu said.
The death rate in Bo District according to some mortuary staff is becoming increasingly high and scary as the sequence of deaths among family members is rife.
However, the Public Relations Officer of NaCOVERC in the Southern Region is encouraging the people of Southern Region to take the Vaccination and take sick patients to Hospital instead of administering treatment at homes.