A Briton, who works in Sierra Leone as a doctor,
has come out to explain the ugly experience he and his team have
experienced since the outbreak of the deadly disease called Ebola.
Dr. Oliver
Dr Oliver Johnson, along with a team of British medics, were in Freetown on a mission to help strengthen the health system of Sierra
Leone when the Ebola Virus was discovered. They have faced many oppositions from the indigenes of the country, who think the Ebola disease is a political conspiracy to undermine certain tribal groups, steal organs or get money from international donors.
Explaining how he takes great care in wearing his protective shield before attending to patients with the Ebola virus, Dr. Oliver lamented on how family members, who are shielded from the isolated relatives, so as to repel the spread of the virus, but the fact that the healthy relatives do not get to see how their infected relatives are being taken care of. This fact puts fears in the heart of family members over patients being exploited in many ways unknown to them. Hence, locals were not allowing infected members related to them to be treated.
The doctor, who had to test for the Ebola disease also to confirm his status, revealed that it took him days to agree to be tested. Making it known that the first case of the Ebola disease was reported May 25 in Sierra Leone, the doctor shared some of the pictures that shows early signs that herald the Ebola virus in two stages.
A rising temperature, headache and sore throat are the first signs the Ebola virus is invading the body, attacking the building blocks of the immune system. As the disease progresses, victims suffer blood shot eyes, as tiny blood vessels burst, causing bleeding from the eyes, ears, mouth, and other orifices as shown in the picture above.
Breaking of the skin, blood seeping out shows the virus of the disease is maturing.
The virus has a death rate of up to 90 per cent, and is highly-contagious, spreading through contact with an infected person’s blood, secretions, organs and other bodily fluids.
It would be recalled that Health Minister in Nigeria, Onyebuchi Chukwu, made it known yesterday that a doctor in Lagos, who treated the dead Liberian Ebola patient, has contracted the deadly Ebola disease.
Dr. Oliver
Dr Oliver Johnson, along with a team of British medics, were in Freetown on a mission to help strengthen the health system of Sierra
Leone when the Ebola Virus was discovered. They have faced many oppositions from the indigenes of the country, who think the Ebola disease is a political conspiracy to undermine certain tribal groups, steal organs or get money from international donors.
Explaining how he takes great care in wearing his protective shield before attending to patients with the Ebola virus, Dr. Oliver lamented on how family members, who are shielded from the isolated relatives, so as to repel the spread of the virus, but the fact that the healthy relatives do not get to see how their infected relatives are being taken care of. This fact puts fears in the heart of family members over patients being exploited in many ways unknown to them. Hence, locals were not allowing infected members related to them to be treated.
The doctor, who had to test for the Ebola disease also to confirm his status, revealed that it took him days to agree to be tested. Making it known that the first case of the Ebola disease was reported May 25 in Sierra Leone, the doctor shared some of the pictures that shows early signs that herald the Ebola virus in two stages.
A rising temperature, headache and sore throat are the first signs the Ebola virus is invading the body, attacking the building blocks of the immune system. As the disease progresses, victims suffer blood shot eyes, as tiny blood vessels burst, causing bleeding from the eyes, ears, mouth, and other orifices as shown in the picture above.
Breaking of the skin, blood seeping out shows the virus of the disease is maturing.
The virus has a death rate of up to 90 per cent, and is highly-contagious, spreading through contact with an infected person’s blood, secretions, organs and other bodily fluids.
It would be recalled that Health Minister in Nigeria, Onyebuchi Chukwu, made it known yesterday that a doctor in Lagos, who treated the dead Liberian Ebola patient, has contracted the deadly Ebola disease.
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