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As of Sunday this week, two-thirds of the 696 beds in Liberia's Ebola treatment centers were empty, according to the health ministry. New admissions and the number of dead bodies being picked up ...
The Island Clinic and its 120 Ebola treatment beds opened to fanfare Sunday afternoon, with a ceremony attended by international health officials and Liberian leaders. But the clinic, located on ...
Our enclosed compound has gaping holes in the fence through which confused Ebola patients sometimes escape to the streets. Our patients lack bed sheets and soap. We sometimes run out of chlorine ...
Health workers in Liberia are struggling to tell whether a growing number of empty beds at Ebola treatment centres is a sign that the country's ramped up response to the disease is working – or just a ...
Dallas nurse Nina Pham, the first U.S. health care worker diagnosed with Ebola, is seen talking and sitting up in her hospital bed in a short video released Thursday before she was transferred to ...
The isolated beds are not only for Ebola but can be used to house patients with any contagious disease, including other airborne pathogens like the avian flu. Protective clothing and facilities ...
Supplying beds for Ebola patients to health facilities in Sierra Leone saved tens of thousands of lives by isolating patients, but providing them just one month earlier could have halved the ...
But once everyone got really sick, no one could get up from their bed. They were only taking the people who were very, very sick to the ETU [Ebola treatment unit] first. I was one of the ones who ...
Ebola: Health officials reported the first cases of Ebola in West Africa back in March. But interest in the topic exploded in August, when the American doctor Kent Brantly was flown to the states ...
The handling of Mr. Duncan, the first person to test positive for Ebola in the United States ... He is sitting up in bed, drinking Sprite and eating saltines. 5:30 p.m. A doctor says Mr. Duncan ...
Britain's donations of more than £100m in the summer of 2014 helped to set up nearly 3,000 hospital beds. This vital provision, researchers estimate, prevented 56,000 Ebola cases. But a further ...