Two Sierra Leone Ebola doctors die in one day

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/afric...la-doctors-die-one-day-20141262302736452.html


Two Sierra Leone Ebola doctors die in one day
Health officials call deaths devastating as Nigerian medics fly in to help in country where virus spreading fastest.
Last updated: 06 Dec 2014 03:20

Two doctors have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone on the same day, a government and a hospital source said, bringing to 10 the number of doctors killed in by the virus in one of the worst-affected countries.

The worst Ebola outbreak on record has torn through some of West Africa's weakest health systems, killing nearly 350 medical personnel, including 106 in Sierra Leone, which is still rebuilding from years of war in the 1990s.

"We are devastated at this haemorrhaging of our healthcare workers," a senior health ministry official told the Reuters news agency, asking not to be named.

There was no immediate comment from authorities but the sources named the two dead doctors.

It is not clear how the men were infected as they were not working on the frontline in an Ebola clinic...

 

[Emily]

Re: Two Sierra Leone Ebola doctors die in one day

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/06/doctor-treated-british-run-ebola-clinic-sierra-leone-dies

Doctor treated at British-run Ebola military clinic in Sierra Leone dies
Sierra Leonean medic is the eighth doctor to die of Ebola in the country

Chris Johnston and agencies

Saturday 6 December 2014 08.31 EST
A doctor who was being treated at an Ebola clinic run by British military medical staff in Sierra Leone has died.
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The clinic, which opened in early November, included an 80-bed treatment centre managed by Save the Children and a 12-bed centre staffed by British Army medics specifically for healthcare workers and international staff responding to the Ebola crisis...