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    The BBC's Tulip Mazumdar meets William Pooley, the British nurse who had returned to Sierra Leone after recovering from Ebola.


    The British nurse who has returned to Sierra Leone after recovering from Ebola has told the BBC he is "frustrated" by the "woefully slow" international response to the outbreak. William Pooley is back at the heart of the crisis, treating patients in the capital Freetown.

    It's 8am and a queue of desperate-looking people are standing outside the gates of Connaught Hospital in Freetown.

    The 18-bed Ebola isolation ward, run by the British-based King's Sierra Leone Partnership, has been at capacity for three months.

    But a bed has become free overnight after another patient, a man in his 30s, passed away. It's one in, one out, and the medic deciding who will get a bed first today is British nurse Will Pooley.

    There are four people lying in the recently erected white screening tent. Patients are assessed and then put inside the tent if they are suspected of having Ebola.

    More at link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30109740
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