{"id":59256,"date":"2014-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-from-liberia-to-hold-rally-in-providence-aug-7-to-highlight-ebola-crisis-in-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-from-liberia-to-hold-rally-in-providence-aug-7-to-highlight-ebola-crisis-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/08\/uri-students-from-liberia-to-hold-rally-in-providence-aug-7-to-highlight-ebola-crisis-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students from Liberia to hold rally in Providence, Aug. 7, to highlight Ebola crisis in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tStudents, alunni are collecting medical supplies to send to country<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Aug. 5, 2014 \u2013 Liberians are staying inside, afraid to venture out as the deadly Ebola virus continues to burden the country\u2019s already weak health care system.<\/p>\n


\n\tThat\u2019s the word from Liberian native and 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus Komlan Soe, whose mother, sister and brother are living in terror in the West African country.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cLiberians lost two generations of people during civil wars,\u201d says Soe, who graduated from 溏心vlog免费B站 last year and lives in Providence. \u201cNow we have a crisis that is eating up the Liberian society again.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSoe says Monrovia, where his family lives, has come to a standstill, with residents terrified of going outdoors, even for food. He says his mother hasn\u2019t left her house for two days.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cPeople don\u2019t want to go out,\u201d he says. \u201cThey don’t want to get infected. They\u2019re very, very scared.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe government, he says, is overwhelmed by the outbreak, which has killed 887 people so far in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization. <\/p>\n


\n\tTo publicize the need for international help, Soe and other Liberians will hold a rally outside the Statehouse at 3 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 7. He expects about 200 people. (There are about 15,000 Liberians living in Rhode Island.)<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe Liberian government is trying to control the outbreak, but international assistance is needed,\u201d he says. \u201cLiberia can\u2019t handle this alone.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAlarmed by the spread of the virus, the World Bank has pledged about $200 million in emergency funding to help the three countries. The money will be used to pay health workers and get sick people into hospitals.<\/p>\n


\nSoe is also collecting medical supplies, including Clorox wipes, latex gloves and mouth masks, to send to his homeland. Donations can be dropped off at three places in Providence: Decontee\u2019s Restaurant, 711 Broad St.; Jerry\u2019s Salon, 500 Broad St.; and Christ Center for Priests, 93 Providence St.<\/p>\n


\nThe Ebola virus spreads by contact with infected blood and body fluids. The virus has been difficult to stop because of poor health care programs in West Africa, false rumors about the disease and a tradition of bathing bodies after death.<\/p>\n


\nTo combat the illness, the Liberian government ordered this week that the bodies of people killed by Ebola must be cremated, Soe says. \u201cFriends told me they can\u2019t even see people after they\u2019ve died,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n


\nAntoinette Gbomina, a 溏心vlog免费B站 nursing student, says relatives in Liberia told her that \u201ceveryone is scared for their lives\u201d and that more people are starting to show symptoms, which include fever, fatigue, headache and sore throat. (These symptoms are followed by diarrhea, rash, vomiting, organ failure and bleeding.)<\/p>\n


\nThankfully, Gbomina\u2019s family members \u2013 aunts, uncles and cousins \u2013 haven\u2019t gotten the illness, nor do they know of anyone who has died. Still, the virus is spreading so fast it\u2019s worrisome.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cNo one knows what to do,\u201d says Gbomina, of Cranston. \u201cNo one knows how to go about their daily lives. The mood is basically depressing.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAbigail Tubman, a 溏心vlog免费B站 sophomore living in Pawtucket, says her father, aunts, uncles and cousins in Monrovia fear that the disease cannot be contained.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI would never like to see something happen to them,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s scary. All I can do is pray for their health and hope things get better.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above: Komlan Soe, of Providence, a Liberian native who graduated from the 溏心vlog免费B站 last year. He says relatives in Liberia are terrified to go outdoors as the deadly Ebola outbreak worsens in the West African country.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students, alunni are collecting medical supplies to send to country KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Aug. 5, 2014 \u2013 Liberians are staying inside, afraid to venture out as the deadly Ebola virus continues to burden the country\u2019s already weak health care system. That\u2019s the word from Liberian native and 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus Komlan Soe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}