By Prince Nagbe, LINA
MONROVIA, April 13 (LINA) – President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has said the integration of Ebola survivors into their communities, void of stigmatization, is the biggest challenge of her government.
President Sirleaf noted that Ebola survivors need to live in places where people do not see them as abnormal people but rather as people who are normal because they have been cured.
The Liberian leader believes that though they are being properly cared for in safe homes and supported with food and other care by the government through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, some need to be given to their guardians in the community.
She made the comment in the C. Cecil Dennis Conference Room at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Monrovia on Monday when she held a Te-ta-te with media executives on issues of national concerns and to strengthen the relationship between the government and the media.
The President indicated that other survivors, especially those of them whose parents died as a result of the Ebola outbreak, will also be given to people who are willing to take them in their homes so that they can be reunited to the society and become normal again.
She, however, noted that the government is obliged in carrying out such a herculean task.
LINA