My quote option is being weird but referring to the link above for Cariis' post:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...pplies-cripple-care-ebola-hit-liberia-n220686
Before the epidemic, six physicians served all four counties (range = one to three per county). At the time of the evaluation, only three physicians remained; the others had left Liberia because of the epidemic, they wrote.
In two of four hospitals assessed, nursing staff members were not coming to work or had abandoned facilities; in another hospital, health care providers had not been paid for three months but were still providing basic care.
Only 6 doctors for a country that is the size of Tennessee and has over 4 million people. Hospital that don't even have running water. This is crazy. Good Lord, so in order to help other countries have to build hospitals, provide doctors and staffs, establish running water, and bring all supplies etc?? What an incredible cost and amount opower. How overwhelming for these foreign doctors to deal with!!
So they do build a hospital/clinic and bring in supplies only to be hit by armed thieves who looted the place and caused patients to flee or escape?? They stole mattresses and other vital supplies, including contaminated materials. For what?? To sell to others who had no idea that it was contaminated?? Cause a new outbreak??
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/17/world/africa/ebola-liberia-attack/
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/afric...liberia-clinic-looted-201481713725590885.html The head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams, said the unit had housed 29 patients who were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital....Of the 29 patients, 17 fled last night. Nine died four days ago and three others were taken by force by their relatives," he said. "They had all tested positive for Ebola."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-armed-men-attack-liberia-ebola-clinic-freeing-patients/
"A crowd of several hundred local residents, chanting, 'No Ebola in West Point,' drove away the burial team and their police escort. The mob then forced open an Ebola isolation ward and took the patients out, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax. "
"West Point residents went on a "looting spree," stealing items from the clinic that were likely infected, said a senior police official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press. The residents took medical equipment and mattresses and sheets that had bloodstains, he said. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids including blood, vomit, feces and sweat."
I know this isn't new news but WTF is wrong with these people. Attacking the facility, stealing contaminated stuff, etc. How can you help people in a situation where you have people actively trying to go after to, threaten you with violence, steal contaminated stuff and spread lies that Ebola is a hoax.???
Nope, I couldn't do it, wouldn't go there to help. I have worked as a first responder and #1 rule is OUR SAFETY FIRST!!! No one going to help should ever be attacked and put at a deadly risk like that!!
