The New York Times

A day at a Liberian Ebola clinic

An article in The New York Times examines a single day at the newly opened Ebola treatment center run by the International Medical Corps.


An article in The New York Times examined a single day at the newly opened Ebola treatment center run by the International Medical Corps. 

The center has people working as cleaners, sprayers and waste removers — part of the WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) team — who continuously disinfect the site and remove contaminated material. 

The article describes a Liberian woman scooping steaming yam porridge out of a blue bucket — breakfast for the patients and staff.

"The sight was a little jarring: The woman was putting the food into plastic foam plates just a few steps from the dressing rooms for staff members coming out of the decontamination areas, the pharmacy, and past a refrigerator with a sign marked, 'Ebola blood tests. NO FOOD,'” according to the article.

Cleaners go into the wards ahead of the medical teams and spray the ground with chlorine solution and pick up garbage with buckets that looked just like the ones that held the yam cereal.

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October 10, 2014


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