Ebola: perspectives from a nurse and patient.

Will Pooley

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.14-0762

Abstract

Ebola: perspectives from a nurse and patient.

Highlights

I had no real plan of what to do on arrival in Kenema but eventually, was put in touch with the Kenema Government Hospital deputy matron, who immediately and enthusiastically accepted my offer to volunteer in the Ebola treatment units (ETUs)
Will Pooley* King’s College Sierra Leone Partnership, Freetown, Sierra Leone In July of 2014, I was working as a nurse for a small nongovernmental organization in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, as the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic grew in the east of the country
The situation in Kenema was tense; the regular nurses at the ETU were on strike over issues related to pay, and, understandably, there was a strong undercurrent of fear, because they had already seen quite a few coworkers contract EVD, many fatally

Summary

Introduction

I had no real plan of what to do on arrival in Kenema but eventually, was put in touch with the Kenema Government Hospital deputy matron, who immediately and enthusiastically accepted my offer to volunteer in the ETU. Will Pooley* King’s College Sierra Leone Partnership, Freetown, Sierra Leone In July of 2014, I was working as a nurse for a small nongovernmental organization in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, as the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic grew in the east of the country. It was not difficult for me to decide to work in the eastern city of Kenema, which at the time, was at the heart of the epidemic and the site of one of two Ebola treatment units (ETUs) in Sierra Leone.

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