Survivors Offer Realistic View To Ebola Treatment Boot Camp

Written by Ann Brown

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A delirious man staggers through a hospital ward, banging into walls until he is overpowered by nurses in protective suits. Trainers are using survivors of the Ebola virus to give frighteningly realistic courses to medical staff fighting t

The World Health Organization has constructed a mock Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in the capital Monrovia where doctors, nurses and medical students, some sent by the African Union, are being drilled in how to treat and deal with the dangers of the disease.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the medical charity that has been at the forefront of the fight against the epidemic, has been insisting that training health workers is key. Trainers constantly drum into the students that a treatment unit is useless if it lacks competent staff — which is the case almost everywhere.

 

 

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