Shunned by their families, evicted from their homes and paid next to nothing: Plight of African nurses risking their lives to treat ebola patients revealed
Nurses treating Ebola victims are routinely thrown out of rented homes
In Sierra Leone, many are shunned by their terrified friends and families
57 per cent of medics treating Ebola have succumbed to the disease
Liberia and Sierra Leone are the countries worst hit by the epidemic
By Ruth Styles
DailyMailUK
28 October 2014
The women’s staff room at Hastings Ebola Treatment Center in Western Rural Area, Sierra Leone, is cramped, stuffy and hot from the sunlight flooding through the window.
Nurses in blue scrubs squeeze onto the rickety beds and try to sleep during their break in the Green Zone.
Later, they will go to the Yellow Zone, pull on their Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and go back to the wards – the Red Zone.
For many of these health workers, the hospital is the only place where they are not shunned by the community or their families. And for most, it is passion and not money that drives them on.
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