Chinese peacekeepers to Liberia perform duties in Ebola-stricken area

A transport vehicle fleet of the Chinese peacekeeping force to Liberia is performing its duty in an Ebola-stricken area in Liberia.The Chinese peacekeeping force to Liberia is still stationed in the Ebola-stricken area and continuously performs its transport support missions. (Chinamil.com.cn/Zhang Zhen)

The Chinese peacekeeping force to Liberia is still stationed in the Ebola-stricken area and continuously performs its transport support missions.

The Ebola virus with a human mortality rate as high as 90 percent spreads very fast. There is no effective medicine or means in the world to date to cure the patients infected by the virus. The most effective method to avoid the infection of the virus is to implement isolated management and avoid contact with the external world.

The place where the first concentrated Ebola-virus infection cases broke out was about 800 meters away from the barracks of the Chinese peacekeeping transport detachment to Liberia (hereinafter referred to as the Chinese detachment), through which the Chinese peacekeeping officers and men must pass when performing their transport missions.

As the sole transport force directly under the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), the Chinese detachment is responsible for the transport support tasks, including those of transporting troops for deployment and rotation, goods and building materials, and fuel and water, for various peacekeeping forces, which require frequent dispatch of vehicles and a wide range of personnel contacts.

Therefore, the Chinese detachment has made a series of counter-measures, namely focusing on protecting the personnel carrying out missions outside the barracks by allowing them to wear gauze masks and sterile gloves, dispatching the accompanying medical personnel to do cleaning and disinfection for vehicles and personnel, conducting entrance registration, body temperature measurement and medical check-up for those entering the barracks, setting up isolation rooms for those with fever and headache symptoms for further observation and protection.

And at the same time, the detachment has carried out the concentrated medical-waste harmless treatment by using a self-built high-temperature incineration furnace, and strictly washed and disinfected the barracks three-times a day, thoroughly cleaned the environment in the barracks and continuously carried out the actions to eliminate rats, cockroaches, mosquitoes and flies.