Fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone: a view from the frontline.
The largest and most complex Ebola epidemic in history is believed to have started with the infection of a 2-year-old boy in South-eastern Guinea in late 2013. Within a year, thousands of children and their families had contracted the virus, many had died and many more were orphaned. We reflect on our experiences of volunteering at the Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone between January and February 2015, where we were deployed to care for just a few of these children as part of the Save The Children team.
Department of Child Health, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Shields, UK.
Stephen
S
Owens
Save The Children, Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre, Kerry Town, Sierra Leone.
Thomas
T
Leyland
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Infectious Diseases; Tropical Inf Dis; Tropical Paediatrics