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?They sent us here for a checkup,? her boyfriend, Moses Sackie, said outside the facility run by the aid group Doctors Without Borders. ?Now they are telling us to wait for three days.?
The Doctors Without Borders center in Paynesville, on the outskirts of Monrovia, has 160 beds and is scheduled to add 25 on Monday. It needs 1,200 ? and a corresponding increase in staff ? to cope with the epidemic, said Sophie-Jane Madden, a spokeswoman for the organization. As Ebola begins to race through this city, that number is certain to increase.
?We?re just running behind the virus, aren?t we?? Madden said. ?And taking the sickest people because we don?t have the capacity? for more. On Friday, 23 people were admitted, 25 were turned away, nine died and seven were released after recovering, she said.
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The sick arrive each day, hopeful that their timing and symptoms will get them past the gate. Even so, 7 in 10 will die inside, slightly better odds than the 9 in 10 who are dying in the community, Madden said.
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On Saturday morning, Josh Tugbeh?s luck did not hold. He felt sick and weak, with pain in his joints that made it difficult to walk. ?I come here and they say they are not accepting patients,? he said outside the ELWA 3 center, as the Doctors Without Borders facility is called. ?I want to go back home, but I am not able to walk to go home.?
The scene was similar at the JFK treatment center run by the Liberian government in another Monrovia neighborhood, where Jatu Zombo cradled her 5-year-old son, Foday, beneath a tarp set up to block the sun. A few feet away, her 10-year-old boy, Zen*nah, sat on a paint can. Both children were listless and visibly ill. They felt cold and had been vomiting. Their father had died four days earlier, and Zombo, 36, spent days calling for an ambulance that never came. Finally, her brother paid someone $20 in U.S. currency to bring them to JFK.
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Around the corner and down a block or two, another small crowd had grown angry at the delay in retrieving a man?s body that lay under a tree outside some homes. Residents said that it had been there since Friday and that Redemption officials had failed to respond to repeated calls to come get it. Ebola, a hemorrhagic disease, is at its most lethal in the body fluids that leak from corp*ses.
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The U.S. government has spent more than $100 million in the region, and additional requests for aid, if approved by Congress, would bring the total commitment to more than $250 million. Critics called the U.S. response inadequate after the Pentagon said last week it is sending a 25-bed field hospital to treat health-care workers exposed to Ebola. Senior administration officials have suggested that additional assistance is forthcoming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...e71468-3b61-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html
?They sent us here for a checkup,? her boyfriend, Moses Sackie, said outside the facility run by the aid group Doctors Without Borders. ?Now they are telling us to wait for three days.?
The Doctors Without Borders center in Paynesville, on the outskirts of Monrovia, has 160 beds and is scheduled to add 25 on Monday. It needs 1,200 ? and a corresponding increase in staff ? to cope with the epidemic, said Sophie-Jane Madden, a spokeswoman for the organization. As Ebola begins to race through this city, that number is certain to increase.
?We?re just running behind the virus, aren?t we?? Madden said. ?And taking the sickest people because we don?t have the capacity? for more. On Friday, 23 people were admitted, 25 were turned away, nine died and seven were released after recovering, she said.
...
The sick arrive each day, hopeful that their timing and symptoms will get them past the gate. Even so, 7 in 10 will die inside, slightly better odds than the 9 in 10 who are dying in the community, Madden said.
...
On Saturday morning, Josh Tugbeh?s luck did not hold. He felt sick and weak, with pain in his joints that made it difficult to walk. ?I come here and they say they are not accepting patients,? he said outside the ELWA 3 center, as the Doctors Without Borders facility is called. ?I want to go back home, but I am not able to walk to go home.?
The scene was similar at the JFK treatment center run by the Liberian government in another Monrovia neighborhood, where Jatu Zombo cradled her 5-year-old son, Foday, beneath a tarp set up to block the sun. A few feet away, her 10-year-old boy, Zen*nah, sat on a paint can. Both children were listless and visibly ill. They felt cold and had been vomiting. Their father had died four days earlier, and Zombo, 36, spent days calling for an ambulance that never came. Finally, her brother paid someone $20 in U.S. currency to bring them to JFK.
...
Around the corner and down a block or two, another small crowd had grown angry at the delay in retrieving a man?s body that lay under a tree outside some homes. Residents said that it had been there since Friday and that Redemption officials had failed to respond to repeated calls to come get it. Ebola, a hemorrhagic disease, is at its most lethal in the body fluids that leak from corp*ses.
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The U.S. government has spent more than $100 million in the region, and additional requests for aid, if approved by Congress, would bring the total commitment to more than $250 million. Critics called the U.S. response inadequate after the Pentagon said last week it is sending a 25-bed field hospital to treat health-care workers exposed to Ebola. Senior administration officials have suggested that additional assistance is forthcoming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...e71468-3b61-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html