It is a strange situation in Monrovia. I don't want to say it is the end of the outbreak yet, but numbers are numbers and they say that we have 1 patient in the treatment centre as we speak. I can't even imagine what the centre must have looked like when I go back in the data and see that there were weeks with more than 150 admissions in one week!
I was a bit worried to come here because when I was struggling in Sierra Leone good friends told me the stories they lived through some weeks ago of refusing patients at the gate, the 200 bed treatment centre was not big enough and dead body management was more necessary than anything else. I can't express the respect I have for them, attending to the patients as good as possible and trying not to get infected themselves. Definitely worth to be the people of the year 2014!
When they come back here, they will see a different Monrovia and Elwa: number of beds is down to 30 and dismantling and desludging (worth googling) has started!
Besides running around from meetings to the clinic and back again, changing from regular clothes to the strangest scrubs and boots, it is not bad to end the day with a beer and some crazy attempt to play beach volleyball with the ebola team! FYI, gloves can be the perfect excuse to touch another human being without breaking any rules...
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| 500th Survivor at Elwa 3, Monrovia, Liberia (Jan 2015) |
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