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Second ebola recovery plan focuses on Social Services

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Addressing journalists recently on the effect of ebola on the country and government’s post ebola recovery plans, President Ernest Bai Koroma revealed that the second phase of the Ebola Recovery Plan will focus on social services.
He said before the ebola outbreak, the country was reckoned to be the second fastest growing economy in the world with lots of development programmes underway in area of governance, attracting direct foreign investment and the presence of peace and quiet
“These were all happening because of our conscious efforts to ensure that we transform this country and we were at the peak of it when ebola struck,” the President reminisced, adding, “with ebola everything was put on hold and all our efforts redirected and focused on fighting the ebola scourge, to the extent that the medical facilities became a no go area, schools were shot down.”
The President maintained that with ebola put in the backburner, it is now the responsibility of government to restore confidence in the country’s health system and facilities. “That is why I have emphasised on building up our health infrastructure. Our economy is down and we have to make conscious efforts to revitalise it,” the President further maintained, noting that even though the ebola scourge is over, government is still battling with its effect. The economy has to be revived; we have put in place programmes and revitalising sectors that were greatly affected.”
The President noted, “That is why our first action as a government was to roll out the 6-9  months immediate Ebola Recovery Programme which ended this April and we have put in place a successor programme which is the 10-24 months.”
President Koroma disclosed that the objective of these programmes “is to ensure that we restore normalcy to what we have been doing as a nation before. We are now accessing the whole programme and shortly we will come out with the result of our effort as we believe that lot resources and time has been put into the recovery.”
He said government has put in place the 10-24 programme which will include continued effort in the social services; health, education and social protection in particular those that were infected by ebola who are survivors and those who were affected by the whole ebola outbreak.
“Because of the need to address additional issues like energy, improving access to water for our people and also strengthen quick revitalisation of the private sector, we have included these aspects of effort into the 10-24 months. We will start rolling out the 10-24 months programme in May to ensure that there are no gaps and also to make sure that in the process there is an easy way to revamp the agenda for prosperity”.
Monday April 11, 2016

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