Thursday, 25 September 2014

We cannot cope. The demand is huge': Liberia's doctors warnings on Ebola

Fifteen year old Faja Kan is carried into the JFK Hospital Ebola clinic in Monrovia. She had been lying in the mud for hours but was denied access until space became available.
Half the patients with Ebola die in Liberia's overstretched hospitals In time-honoured hospital tradition, the mid-morning ward round at Liberia’s JFK Ebola clinic begins with doctors and nurses gathered in a semicircle. Read more.............


The purpose of the huddle, however, is not to compare medical notes but to sing a prayer — firstly for their patients and then for themselves.
“Treating Ebola patients is very risky as we can become infected ourselves,” says Thelma Kane, 36, the ward hygienist, standing alongside her colleagues in the protective uniform of boiler suit, mask and gloves.
“So before we go into the ward, we sing a prayer to ask the Lord to follow us in our work.”

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