Home care kits highlight gaps in West Africa's Ebola response

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Home care kits highlight gaps in West Africa's Ebola response

But with ambulances overloaded and an insufficient number of beds in treatment centers, getting the sick quickly out of their homes to avoid infecting others is a major challenge.

"Sometimes that's just not possible. When someone gets sick overnight, we have to ensure that they don?t infect others," Sheldon Yett, the head of U.N. child agency UNICEF in Liberia, told Reuters.

"People really want to give help to people who are sick, but we need to ensure that when they give help to people who are sick, they don?t get sick too. These kits are designed to do just that ? to break the circle of transmission."