Ebola Takes Young Doctor
Mon, 10/20/2014 - 00:26 admin
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By:
Alaskai Moore Johnson, Observer Health Correspondent
The deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) has again struck at the nation?s already staggering medical workforce. This time a young Liberian medical doctor, Thomas S. Scotland, fell prey to the virus on Saturday morning.
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He died at the Government of Liberia-run Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) within the compound of the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia.
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As the virus raged on in the country, he decided to volunteer his service in the cause of humanity at the JFK ETU.
According to reports, he was one of six persons including health workers at the JFK ETU who contracted the disease nearly three weeks ago.
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He stated that he and others were shocked when they received the news of Scotland?s death, adding that from what he had heard, Scotland was not directly in harm?s way in the ETU.
?This brings to light some of the things I have been saying. We are managing Ebola in this country without a standard protocol,? Dr. Golakai contended. ?Every treatment center is doing its own thing; it shouldn?t be that way....
