![]() ![]() No contact: Life inside the Ebola outbreak We visibly and dramatically sprayed our hands inside the car with the disinfectant we had with us and leaned our heads out the window so they could check our temperature. The screaming back and forth went on for about 20 minutes. Cooper shot back that was fine for her, but we weren’t getting out of the car. ![]() They told us the president of Liberia had been through the same checkpoint earlier in the day, and she’d gotten out for the wash and check. But I figured out this was a checkpoint, and the young men with guns wanted us to get out and wash our hands and have our temperature taken.Ĭooper, our coordinator and an accomplished Liberian journalist, argued with the guards. LIberian English is beautiful and mellifluous and largely incomprehensible to me, especially when spoken at loud volume with a lot of testosterone and passion behind it. Just as the boys were telling me “What Makes You Beautiful,” the car came to a stop, and I heard the sounds of male yelling. I fell asleep in the car to the sounds of One Direction on my iPhone (I have tween daughters). #Bulb boy go back one checkpoint full#We left Tubmanburg and Logan and his ambulance full of Ebola contacts and headed back to Monrovia. ![]() Here’s what I don’t understand: With the millions upon millions of dollars spent in West Africa on Ebola, why doesn’t this man get his treatment center? These centers are the single most important way to prevent the transmission of the disease, since they isolate the infected. He’s strict about infection control – no health care workers have died on his watch – and he resourcefully tries different drugs to save his dying patients. Logan and his staff are doing a heroic job of taking care of Ebola patients under difficult circumstances. Logan put in an order for a second ambulance so they could stretch out and sleep more comfortably. The five relatives would have to spend the night in the ambulance. The county health department would feed them and take care of their needs.īut they weren’t going to find a place until the morning. It was decided they’d look for a government building of some kind where the family could spend the 21-day quarantine. They couldn’t go back home, and they couldn’t go into the facility because they might get infected.īy the light of a single bulb outside the facility, Logan convened an impromptu meeting between himself, county Superintendent Samuel Brown and acting county Field Officer Frances Alesi. Now the five relatives – three adults, a 13-year-old and a 5-year-old – were in the ambulance in Ebola limbo. My team and I – senior producer John Bonifield, senior photographer Orlando Ruiz and our coordinator, Liberian journalist Orlind Cooper – saw firsthand Tuesday night just how much he needs a real hospital.Ībout 7 p.m., an ambulance arrived at Logan’s facility in Tubmanburg with five people who, the day before, had washed the bodies of a mother and daughter who had died of Ebola.Īfter they’d done the washing, their community kicked them out, Logan told us. ![]() Logan has been begging the federal government for more than a month for an official Ebola treatment unit, one with more beds and a quarantine area for people who’ve come in close contact with Ebola patients but aren’t sick. ![]()
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