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Ebola Claims Another Sierra Leone Doctor; ZMapp to Liberia
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone A second leading Sierra Leone doctor has succumbed to the Ebola epidemic sweeping across West Africa, dealing another blow to the countrys faltering efforts to stem the disease.Dr. Modupeh Cole, 56, died Wednesday at the Ebola treatment center operated by Doctors Without Borders in the northeastern town of Kailahun, officials at the health ministry said. The loss of Dr. Cole was described as significant by health officials in a country with a severe shortage of well-trained doctors, especially coming two weeks after the death of Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, the virologist who was leading the fight against the disease in eastern Sierra Leone, where it has flourished. Dr. Cole was a highly qualified physician, and we have very few of them on hand, said Dr. Amara Jambai, director of prevention and control at the health ministry. You can imagine what this does to the younger cohort. Its like having a general falling in battle. It just brings more misery. Its not good. When you have a health system thats constrained, its a bit too much. MONROVIA (Reuters) - A consignment of experimental Ebola drugs arrived by plane in Liberia on Wednesday to treat two doctors suffering from the virus, which has killed more than 1,000 people across four West African countries. The drug, ZMapp, arrived in two boxes on a commercial flight from the United States carried by Liberia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augustine Ngafuan, and was unloaded at the VIP terminal, a Reuters witness said. It will be taken to a hospital in the capital and administered to Liberian doctors Zukunis Ireland and Abraham Borbor, who officials said contracted the disease while attending to patients, including a late colleague. Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-14 |
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