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International Medical Corps nurse dies of Ebola in Sierra Leone
Lisa O'Carroll
Wednesday 15 July 2015 06.54 EDT
A nurse working for the charity International Medical Corps has died of Ebola in Sierra Leone.
The health worker, a Sierra Leonean national, worked at the Ebola treatment centre in the coastal Kambia district on the border with Guinea, where there have been intermittent flare-ups of the disease.
As of 14 July, Ebola had claimed the lives of 3,947 people in Sierra Leone. Between 14 June and 5 July, three deaths from Ebola were reported: one in Port Loko, in the country?s north; one in Western Area Urban, the most populous of Sierra Leone?s 14 districts; and one in Kambia.
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The head of the International Medical Corps, Nancy Aossey, said the nurse was ?a heroic staff member, who was helping the people of Sierra Leone?.
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Lisa O'Carroll
Wednesday 15 July 2015 06.54 EDT
A nurse working for the charity International Medical Corps has died of Ebola in Sierra Leone.
The health worker, a Sierra Leonean national, worked at the Ebola treatment centre in the coastal Kambia district on the border with Guinea, where there have been intermittent flare-ups of the disease.
As of 14 July, Ebola had claimed the lives of 3,947 people in Sierra Leone. Between 14 June and 5 July, three deaths from Ebola were reported: one in Port Loko, in the country?s north; one in Western Area Urban, the most populous of Sierra Leone?s 14 districts; and one in Kambia.
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The head of the International Medical Corps, Nancy Aossey, said the nurse was ?a heroic staff member, who was helping the people of Sierra Leone?.
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