SET
Stop Ebola
Transmission
(Monrovia
City Hall Annex)
(Cell contacts:
0886-471-449; 0886-512-519; 0880-974-279)
Monrovia
– Saturday, September 20, 2014:
The
Stop Ebola Transmission Initiative (SET) has concluded technical details for
organization, integration and coordination of community-based groups seeking to
prevent the transmission of the Ebola Virus in Liberia. The structure of the community-based effort
requires that all communities in Liberia should be enumerated and houses
numbered.
For
the purpose of organizing community residents to take the lead in fighting the
Ebola disease, each administrative locality in the country is divided into
zones; each zone is further divided into communities; each community is then
broken down into blocks and neighborhoods; and the houses in the neighborhood
are enumerated with no two having the same number. In the rural setting, the neighborhood is the
same as a town or a village.
To
ensure intensive comprehensive involvement and ownership of the effort to stop
Ebola from spreading, each Neighborhood Monitor is assigned the task of
observing the health status of four houses in his or her immediate neighborhood.
Neighborhood Monitors will be trained
and equipped on how to do the daily monitoring and how to make reports on the
health status of the households to the Ebola Control System.
Information
provided by the Neighborhood Monitor or anybody who has observed a situation will
trigger response from the Ebola Control system.
The
enumeration of houses has started and will continue until all houses in Liberia
are numbered. The number assigned to a house will indicate the county; the
administrative locality; the community; the neighborhood; and the house number.
Numbers
assigned to houses will make it easier to track and trace case incidents. It will also facilitate the planning,
allocation, targeting and delivery of material and non-material support to
individuals and households during the Ebola crisis. Bio-data of each household will be registered
in the community directory.
Signed:
Oscar
Cooper
Chairman,
Stop Ebola Transmission Initiative (SET)