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  • Doctor leading Sierra Leone's fight dies from Ebola
     OP - July 30, 2014, 09:24 AM
    Brave bloke.



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    The doctor leading Sierra Leone's fight against the worst Ebola outbreak on record has died from the virus, the country's chief medical officer said.

    The death of Sheik Umar Khan, who was credited with treating more than 100 patients, follows the deaths of dozens of local health workers and the infection of two American medics in neighbouring Liberia, highlighting the dangers faced by staff trying to halt the disease's spread across western Africa.

    Ebola is believed to have killed 672 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since the outbreak began in February, according to the World Health Organisation.

    The contagious disease, which has no known cure, has symptoms that include vomiting, diarrhoea and internal and external bleeding.

    The 39-year-old Dr Khan, hailed as a "national hero" by the health ministry, had been moved to a treatment ward run by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres in the far north of Sierra Leone.

    He died on Tuesday afternoon (local time), less than a week after his diagnosis was announced, and on the same day president Ernest Bai Koroma was due to visit his treatment centre in the north-eastern town of Kailahun.

    "It is a big and irreparable loss to Sierra Leone as he was the only specialist the country had in viral haemorrhagic fevers," chief medical officer Brima Kargbo said.

    Weak health systems are struggling to contain the disease despite international help, ranging from doctors to safety equipment.

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  • Doctor leading Sierra Leone's fight dies from Ebola
     Reply #1 - July 30, 2014, 10:05 AM
    Saw this on Al-Jazeera today. Brave bloke, indeed. May he rest in peace. 
  • Doctor leading Sierra Leone's fight dies from Ebola
     Reply #2 - July 30, 2014, 12:08 PM
    Good man. He helped people knowing full well he could become ill as a result. He did it anyways.
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