About the Washington Post: Ebola takes big toll and poor health care. Excerpt:
When the dreaded Ebola virus to infect humans began in the city of Kenema in Sierra Leone, were Dr. Sheikh Humarr Khan and his team on the front. After his encounter suit left after hours in a stuffy service, jumped on the phone to coordinate with the Ministry of Health to deal with personnel issues and tend to the business of the hospital.
It was cozy, but energetic. When he walked into a room, everyone looked to him for leadership and was a decisive said Daniel Bausch, an American doctor who worked with Khan.
But Khan has tested positive for the Ebola virus at the end of July and died shortly thereafter. It is one of at least two doctors in Sierra Leone, who died in the outbreak, which is Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal affected. The World Health Organization says that a larger proportion of medical personnel than any other made ill on the album, with 240 contracted Ebola and more than half of them die.
The check-in staff health was immediately felt by the grief and anguish of colleagues and patients who have had fewer people to care for them, and probably the health system is reset - poorly equipped to endemic poverty to start - coming in the years.
"These are people who were the backbone" to improve the efforts to strengthen health systems in difficulties, Bausch, Professor of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University said. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, "Try years of development has stagnated or declined and some progress. This is a brand new infinity".
Khan was an expert in Lassa, Ebola hemorrhagic fever like, ie. Extensive experience in the current epidemic It is also important to improve the health system in Sierra Leone in general. Poor infrastructure of the health system in the region, with poverty, has helped fuel the spread of the Ebola virus.
Modupeh Cole, a hospital doctor Connaught higher in the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown, died of Ebola. He was one of the three official doctors who cared for the young doctors in the hospital, said Dr. Oliver Johnson, a British doctor who worked as part of the Sierra Leone Association of king for two years. The death of Cole hinder the hospital and would not be offered in the location, specialized post-graduate training, Johnson said.
The loss of senior doctors has a great impact, because there are so few of them. Liberia has only one doctor for every 100,000 people, while Sierra Leone has two, according to statistics from the World Health Organization. By comparison, the United States of 245 physicians per 100,000 people.