Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola infection: ‘The world is not safe’

Thursday, October 30, 2014
By Paul Martin

Sparsely-equipped hospitals and beleaguered staff battle a disease whose victims outpace the number of beds being built

Lisa O’Carroll
TheGuardian
Thursday 30 October 2014

All over Freetown, buildings, vehicles and people are being commandeered in the fight against Ebola. In the suburb of Wilberforce, in an old building for the telecommunications company Airtel, a dozen students loiter on a wall waiting to relieve staff from the trauma at the Ebola hotline they are manning.

Outside, the din of ambulances would not be noteworthy until the driver and passenger appear in regulation yellow overalls, mask, goggles, hood and visor.

Every ambulance is now an Ebola ambulance in Sierra Leone’s capital where an invisible malevolent force has taken hold, causing fear and untold grief as the dying and the dead infect families and friends in their wake.

According to the World Health Organisation, there have been 5,235 confirmed, probable and suspected Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, out of 13,703 worldwide, and 1,500 deaths.

Inside the call centre, cancer biologist Reynold Senesi talks to four soldiers. They have been brought on board following a political reshuffle which has put the defence ministry in charge of the war against Ebola, a move everyone applauds.

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