Dying of Ebola at the Gates of the Hospital in Liberia

A report in the New York Times reveals the tragedy of an epidemic that is spreading more and more. Doctors Without Borders: “They die between 10 and 15 people a day but we are filled with the same”

Dying of Ebola at the gates of the hospital. Is the title of a dramatic reportage from the New York Times in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, one of the African countries most affected by ‘ unprecedented epidemic . The virus has already killed more than 2,300 people, on a number of infected exceeding four units, and according to a study conducted by a group of scientists from Oxford, Ebola could soon reach 15 countries in Africa, putting at risk the lives of 70 million people.

“I’M DYING.” Outside the hospital Jfk, in Monrovia, a young boy of twenty squirms on the floor of land between tin shacks, shouting, “I’m dying.” His father, Lasana Stewoh, it is up to the side waiting for the hospital to open the door: “Do not do nothing but vomit and defecate. Can not eat. ” The JFK is the largest spa complex in the country, but like many others no longer even a spare bed.

MEDICAL POWERLESS. “Wherever we go we say the same thing: there is no place, you have to wait,” continued the boy’s father. According to the World Health Organisation, the conventional measures “are not having a proper impact,” and in the coming weeks you will encounter thousands of new cases.
“It breaks my heart to see” the people who died at the gates of the hospital, “but not We can do nothing, “says Stefan Liljegren, who coordinates the field hospital in Monrovia Doctors Without Borders. “We have no space, we do not have the means.”

“THERE IS NO PLACE. ‘ “Look around here we have 350 beds,” continues Liljegren. “It had never happened before we were to reject the sick. It is not an easy experience, but we are full every day and we can not build other rooms in time. ” This, despite dying in the medical field “between 10 and 15 people a day.”

ANGER. Jfk At the gates of the hospital a group of men come together to Lasana Stewoh to protest. Eventually, a doctor comes out with his usual suit for not being infected and declares: “We have no place.” People get angry: “I’m not too Liberians?”. But the answer is always the same: “We have no more room.” The boy’s father suffering from Ebola is angry: “I say all the time: as soon as you find a case, bring it before you. I do it, never then nothing happens. I only say, “Wait, wait, wait.” And I look and I do not know what else to do.
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