Call to register for Dutch in Ebola countries
Dutch people living in West Africa where the current Ebola outbreak has caused at least 900 deaths are being asked to register with their nearest embassy, the NRC reports.
The call went out in a letter from the foreign affairs ministry to all the Dutch living in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea who are already registered asking them to pass on the request to anyone still unregistered.
‘We have no embassy in the countries currently fighting the Ebola outbreak,’ a ministry spokesman told the NRC.
Contact
‘In order to stay in contact with all our citizens in West Africa, we are asking those in Guinea to register with the embassy in Senegal, and those in Sierra Leone and Liberia to register with the embassy in Ghana,’ he said.
Registration can be done by internet.
On Thursday, aid minister Lilianne Ploumen said she was making €500,000 available to help organisation Artsen Zonder Grenzen for the effort to stop the outbreak spreading.
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