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Tough work, real risk: Aid groups seeking health-care workers for Ebola response
By Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press August 25, 2014 11:50 AM
TORONTO - The conditions are gruelling, there may be a pay cut and the personal risks are all too real.
The need for international health-care workers to help in the response to West Africa's Ebola outbreak is enormous and pressing. But make no mistake ? this is tough, tough work that people are being asked to volunteer for ? and dangerous.
That fact was driven home over the weekend with the announcement that a British nurse and a Senegalese epidemiologist have contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, one of three countries battling the disease.
Dr. Rob Fowler knows the scenario all too well.
A critical care specialist at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Fowler has done a pair of month-long stints in West Africa since the outbreak appeared on the world's radar in March...
Tough work, real risk: Aid groups seeking health-care workers for Ebola response
By Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press August 25, 2014 11:50 AM
TORONTO - The conditions are gruelling, there may be a pay cut and the personal risks are all too real.
The need for international health-care workers to help in the response to West Africa's Ebola outbreak is enormous and pressing. But make no mistake ? this is tough, tough work that people are being asked to volunteer for ? and dangerous.
That fact was driven home over the weekend with the announcement that a British nurse and a Senegalese epidemiologist have contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, one of three countries battling the disease.
Dr. Rob Fowler knows the scenario all too well.
A critical care specialist at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Fowler has done a pair of month-long stints in West Africa since the outbreak appeared on the world's radar in March...