Authorities in Sierra Leone are calling for international aid to halt the spread of MPOX in the country, as the number of cases is increasing, according to an official report known last Saturday.

“We appreciate (the contribution) of our partners for growth. We will continue to ask for their help to secure the resources necessary to react to the increasing cases of MPOX in the country, “Deputy Minister of Health Charles Senesi told the French Agency.

“We work 24 hours a day to put this pandemic under control. We will continue to provide our health staff with the human, economic and diligent resources of which they need, “Mr Sensy assured.

Since January, 3,350 cases of disease have been recorded in the country. Of this, 1,779 patients were recovered, but 16 died, in official report consulted on Saturday by AFP.

A previous report, announced on May 23, spoke of 3,011 cases and 14 deaths.

Vice President Mohammed Julde and Mr Sensy visited MPOX’s new 400 -bed capacity, which opened in the capital of Fritun.

“We have opened this center for the treatment of suspected and confirmed outbreaks” of the disease, Mr. Julde explained to reporters.

About twenty thousand doses of vaccines are expected to arrive in the country today, according to the Director of the Public Service which assigned the fight against the Fontae Sar.

These vaccines are intended for people who have been “in touch” with patients and/or belonging to “high -risk” groups, in particular members of the Health Personnel, he explained, without specifying what their origin is.

So far, 42,872 members of medical and nursing staff have been vaccinated at the forefront of tackling the health crisis.

MPOX, caused by a virus of the same family as that of smallpox, is mainly manifested by fever, myalgia and characteristic rashes.

The virus, first found in today’s LD Congo in 1970, remained limited to about ten African states for years.

It began to spread in 2022 to the rest of the world, especially in developing countries where the virus had never been released before.

The one declared the highest alarm level in 2024 for the MPOX epidemic.

Sierra Leone was among the countries that suffered the heaviest blows in the period when an Ebola epidemic in West Africa ten years ago. That epidemic had claimed the lives of about 4,000 people in the country, of whom 7% were members of health staff, from 2014 to 2016.