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Where is WHO Africa? Where is the African Union?" said Ekambaram who worked in Sierra Leone from August to September. "We've all heard their promises in the media but have seen very little on the ground."
Four of the organization's medical workers who had just returned from Sierra Leone and Liberia said they were frustrated, "chasing after the curve of the outbreak," according to Jens Pederson, the aid organization's humanitarian affairs adviser. "To manage Ebola is not rocket science. It's very basic infection control and very basic protection of staff," said Pederson who said clean water, chlorine and soap were enough to disinfect an affected area.
originally posted by: LukeDAP
I'm sure all these doctors "breached protocol" too. Silly doctors.
The news just keep getting worse.
originally posted by: ketsuko
They don't have what they need out there and they are brutally understaffed and fighting a war of attrition with the disease.
They work 20 hour days in some cases in 100+ degree heat in no a/c in canvas tents with buckets as their latrines.
Try keeping that sanitary and keeping your personal protocol 100% perfect all the time.
Now imagine doing it in an ever-increasing flood of patients, some of whom are hostile and become violent for various reasons.
originally posted by: whyamIhere
They have to wrong about this transmission process.
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originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: LukeDAP
I'm sure all these doctors "breached protocol" too. Silly doctors.
The news just keep getting worse.
They don't have what they need out there and they are brutally understaffed and fighting a war of attrition with the disease.
They work 20 hour days in some cases in 100+ degree heat in no a/c in canvas tents with buckets as their latrines.
Try keeping that sanitary and keeping your personal protocol 100% perfect all the time.
Now imagine doing it in an ever-increasing flood of patients, some of whom are hostile and become violent for various reasons.