Runaway Doctors and Missing Supplies Cripple Care in Ebola-Hit Liberia…”Only three physicians remained; the others had left Liberia because of the epidemic.”

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
By Paul Martin

By Maggie Fox
NBCNews.com
October 7th 2014

Even in parts of Liberia where Ebola hasn’t been spreading, frightened doctors have run away and villages lack basic clean, running water, a team of U.S. government experts reported Tuesday.

The report paints a grim picture of even the luckiest parts of Liberia, the country hardest hit by the worsening Ebola epidemic in West Africa. A team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with Liberian colleagues, visited four counties in southeastern Liberia where no Ebola had been reported.

What they found was sobering, and shows the big job that lies ahead for U.S. and other aid teams trying to build up some kind of rudimentary health care system in Liberia to fight the Ebola epidemic.

“Before the epidemic, six physicians served all four counties (range = one to three per county). At the time of the evaluation, only three physicians remained; the others had left Liberia because of the epidemic,” they wrote.

“In two of four hospitals assessed, nursing staff members were not coming to work or had abandoned facilities; in another hospital, health care providers had not been paid for three months but were still providing basic care.”

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