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US Gives Ambulances to Sierra Leone to Fight Ebola
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ? Sep 10, 2014, 7:45 PM ET
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY and KABBA KARGBO Associated Press
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More than 2,200 deaths throughout West Africa have been attributed to Ebola amid the worst outbreak of the disease in history. The sick have been using motorcycle taxis and other public transport to get to hospitals, further increasing the risk of transmitting the disease that kills about half its victims.
Kathleen FitzGibbon of the U.S. Embassy in Sierra Leone handed President Ernest Bai Koroma the keys to five ambulances Wednesday. The U.S. has spent more than $100 million responding to the outbreak.
"Together we will win this fight," Koroma told her.
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea ? the three countries hit hardest by the outbreak ? are also in need of more protective gear for health care workers and more treatment beds for Ebola victims. The World Health Organization says about 1,000 more beds in isolation centers are needed.
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Doctors Without Borders has said bodies are being left to rot in the streets of Sierra Leone, a claim the country's health officials have rejected. But Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, an adviser to the president, did acknowledge that it can take up to a full day to retrieve a dead body because it must first be tested for Ebola.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/student-brought-ebola-senegal-recovered-25401315
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ? Sep 10, 2014, 7:45 PM ET
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY and KABBA KARGBO Associated Press
...
More than 2,200 deaths throughout West Africa have been attributed to Ebola amid the worst outbreak of the disease in history. The sick have been using motorcycle taxis and other public transport to get to hospitals, further increasing the risk of transmitting the disease that kills about half its victims.
Kathleen FitzGibbon of the U.S. Embassy in Sierra Leone handed President Ernest Bai Koroma the keys to five ambulances Wednesday. The U.S. has spent more than $100 million responding to the outbreak.
"Together we will win this fight," Koroma told her.
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea ? the three countries hit hardest by the outbreak ? are also in need of more protective gear for health care workers and more treatment beds for Ebola victims. The World Health Organization says about 1,000 more beds in isolation centers are needed.
...
Doctors Without Borders has said bodies are being left to rot in the streets of Sierra Leone, a claim the country's health officials have rejected. But Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, an adviser to the president, did acknowledge that it can take up to a full day to retrieve a dead body because it must first be tested for Ebola.
...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/student-brought-ebola-senegal-recovered-25401315