Gov't allocates 630M CFA to combat Ebola

So far spared by the epidemic which is rife in neighbouring Nigeria after Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone where the last statistics has recorded 1,552 deaths. Cameroon has allocated an amount of 630 million francs CFA (1, 26 million U.S. dollars) for its national response plan against the Ebola virus disease, announced an official statement Friday.

"We recall that, to date, no cases have been recorded in Cameroon", reaffirmed the Cameroonian public health Minister, André Mama Fouda, in a statement read to the press Friday in Yaounde, three weeks after the beginning of Government's strategy against the dreaded disease that arouses fear in the population of Cameroon since its appearance in Nigeria.

With this country and others already affected, the Yaoundé authorities have decided to close their borders, land, air and water. This measure does not reassure in so far, as the two neighbors share in common a long land border of more than 2,000 km, deemed to be porous.

In addition, Cameroon is already confronted at this very moment in some of its regions with two deadly outbreaks related to cholera and polio and health authorities recognize the need for prevention to ensure that conditions are met to prevent an Ebola outbreak in the country.