by Emily Scott Written Friday March 6 On the day Abass died, I was on my way back to Freetown where I have been assigned to work at the holding center for pregnant women for the rest of my time here. Let me explain what that means: With limited resources, it
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Abass’s Smile
by Emily Scott I arrived for my evening shift at Maforki on Monday anxious to hear how my patients had fared since I’d last seen them 24 hours before. I expected (and part of me hoped) to hear that Foday had passed away and was no longer suffering. No one I
Foday and Abass
Posted on March 2, 2015 by Emily Scott Written Sunday 3/1 The only word I have been able to find to describe this experience so far is surreal. Today it became real for me. Today was our first day actually treating patients in Maforki, PIH’s Ebola Treatment Unit. Yesterday we set foot there
Trained and Ready
Written Friday 2/27 Those of you who know me know that I’m always freezing; in the middle of the summer you’ll still likely find me curled up by the fireplace. So maybe I have the ideal constitution for working in an ETU. On Thursday and Friday we donned full PPE and trained in the
Stairway Troll
Written Wendesday, 2/25 I am currently taking up residence on the stairway landing between the third and fourth floors of our guest house, where the wifi has been most reliably good today. It’s a nice way to meet all the PIH-ers I don’t know yet, as they pass me on
National Ebola Training Academy Begins
We made it to Sierra Leone! It was touch and go for a minute in DC, where we sat on the tarmac for 3 hours while they plowed the runway and de-iced our plane. As we watched the time for our layover in Brussels trickle away, I started to get
And We’re Off!
Our stateside training is complete, our passports have arrived complete with our visas just in the nick of time, and today we begin our long trek to Sierra Leone! I’ve utilized all my packing prowess and succeeded in whittling my belongings down to carry-on luggage only, which I’ll admit I’m
Ebola Response Training Day One
I am officially an Ebola responder with Partner in Health! I arrived in Boston late last night and checked into the Holiday Inn where myself and the 11 other PIH clinicians are staying. I lucked out that I’m here with a friend, Glenn, another nurse who I met on a
Sue is coming home!
No, it’s not an April Fools joke. Our patient load is so low all over Freetown, we’re starting to dismantle our ETC. I think MSF Switzerland will continue to work with the survivors and do outreach/decontaminating homes, etc. But there is so much capacity in ETCs now, they are less than
Ebola treatment center fashion, “Ebola is real be wear. God bless MSF”
Only 3 Confirmed patients now. 2 in Suspect, but low suspicion. Today the Convalescent tent was torn down and burned. The Oral Confirmed tent is empty and also ready to be torn down. Only 10 of the 30 Suspect beds are open; the others have orange fencing across the entry to not