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Please note - This woman is trained in nursing skills.
In Liberia, one woman's singular fight against Ebola
snips
She set up a makeshift isolation room in a spare unfinished room outside the house.
She bought raincoats, rain boots, chlorine and other supplies. Then she went to work.
When she entered her father?s treatment room she put on socks, plastic bags donned like waders, rain boots, four sets of gloves, a coat, a mask and a plastic bag over her hair.
He wouldn?t eat. Carefully, she put in an intravenous drip. (Again, this woman is trained in nursing skills. s.s.)
She poured rehydration liquids down his throat, drop by drop.
She gave him blood pressure medicine, antibiotics, analgesics for his fever and splitting headache.
She even gave him an antiretroviral medicine normally used to save the lives of AIDS patients.?
She went through four boxes of surgical gloves, and bags of raincoats.
When she took off the clothing, she had to shrug it off carefully to avoid touching the exterior. She sprayed copiously with chlorinated water.
She carefully burned all the waste.
more...
http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/...005-story.html
Please note - This woman is trained in nursing skills.
In Liberia, one woman's singular fight against Ebola
snips
She set up a makeshift isolation room in a spare unfinished room outside the house.
She bought raincoats, rain boots, chlorine and other supplies. Then she went to work.
When she entered her father?s treatment room she put on socks, plastic bags donned like waders, rain boots, four sets of gloves, a coat, a mask and a plastic bag over her hair.
He wouldn?t eat. Carefully, she put in an intravenous drip. (Again, this woman is trained in nursing skills. s.s.)
She poured rehydration liquids down his throat, drop by drop.
She gave him blood pressure medicine, antibiotics, analgesics for his fever and splitting headache.
She even gave him an antiretroviral medicine normally used to save the lives of AIDS patients.?
She went through four boxes of surgical gloves, and bags of raincoats.
When she took off the clothing, she had to shrug it off carefully to avoid touching the exterior. She sprayed copiously with chlorinated water.
She carefully burned all the waste.
more...
http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/...005-story.html