From Gabriel Madiye shepherdshospice@yahoo.co.uk The Shepherd's Hospice Thank you for inviting some thoughts on Ebola epidemic in West Africa. It is a very serious problem that has claimed lives of health care workers; and we have our staff working to provide care in the field. We have had to temporarily close one of our community health centres in Mopala , Moyamba district of Sierra Leone. The Health facility has been serving a catchment population of 20,000 people providing primary health care and palliative care. However, we have recalled our staff to Freetown, capital city where universal precaution standards are better. They are working in the community palliative care program that treats pain and other distressing symptoms in patients with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, TB and HIV. But our trained community volunteers in Mopala have been trained to identify the early signs and symptoms of ebola and report to the District Ebola taskforce fo...
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