Ebola

June 13, 2014, started as a usual hectic workday for me. After completing two cesarean sections in succession, and clinical rounds, I settled into my administrative duties involving meetings against the cacophony produced by the midday motorcycle traffic outside my office. I received a call from a junior colleague who worked in a public hospital…

Introduction Sierra Leone is one of the world’s poorest countries with a United Nation’s Human Development index rank of 183 out of 187 (Gusky, 2015). The outcome of the war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 lead to the death of 70,000 people and the displacement of individuals, damage to the health system infrastructure,…