they said the people refuse then there
is no space there is no bed so they
going back in the community and it's
dangerous or and that's how it spreads
further because now they're back we are
prepared to sacrifice and to do the
service for the liberan people 20 cases
yesterday 40 cases today and you know
that tomorrow it's going to be 70 these
are real people with real stories and
and real lives the is a dis you must
understand
it
Ebola an infectious disease that spreads
through contact with bodily fluids
including saliva and sweat has an
extremely high fatality rate and is
currently wreaking havoc in West Africa
the recent outbreak which is the largest
of all time really took hold in March of
2014 in Guinea it quickly spread to
Liberia and Sierra Leon with cases also
found in Sagal the Democratic Republic
of Congo and Nigeria As We Gather here
today the people of Liberia are in
crisis the Ebola virus is spreading at
alarming
speed this epidemic could kill hundreds
of thousands of people in the coming
months right as US President Barack
Obama announced that he would be sending
American troops to help combat the
epidemic Vice news headed to Monrovia
the capital of Liberia to document the
fight against the disease with around 3
3,000 confirmed cases of infection and
nearly half of those cases having become
fatal Liberia is now the center point of
the
epidemic what we're picking up here
right now is the first L defense against
Thea which is chlorine so besides
washing your hands this right here this
is
key and you'll see people walking around
with uh with spray buckets with just
like little little satchels or little uh
little canisters on their
belts we first headed to Redemption
Hospital which has become Ground Zero
for Ebola cases in the city
many potential cases are sent there
first and the hospital is overflowing
and lacking the proper infrastructure to
treat them how to manage how to be able
to continue this where you find de all
over it is beyond our capability beyond
our understanding this is the reason why
everyone is confused as soon as we
arrived we saw desperate people outside
trying to get treatment I'm sorry
sir are you okay
he went in a ltin seven times so he has
he has the virus yes so why can't we get
him inside right now I'm going to see if
I can find a way okay and get get him in
there is there space are there beds
inside there everywhere is occupi
everywhere is occupi occup okay
gentleman we were just talking to
outside who's been waiting out there for
2 hours um he's clearly very sick he
clearly has the virus but there's just
there's just no space and there's really
no one there that's that's taken care of
him everything is completely overwhelmed
so we tried to to bring him to the
attention of the people here I'm sure
they know already but um you know the
man's got to sit out there there's
nothing anyone can do right now there's
just a complete shortage of medical
professionals of healthcare facilities
of space to treat this
disease I'm the chief for the district
ambulance S I just brought a paent on
board with the ambulance as you can see
in the the patient still on board and we
are waiting for the nurses then I can
back over here and then as far as the
patient from the ambulance and why are
they waiting is there just is there's no
room in the uh in the Holding Center
right now yeah uh they're trying to
create space are you are you scared I
mean dayto day you're around really sick
people for me I'm Not Afraid yeah
because I I'm working for my country I'm
working for my people to save life at
least so other people life can be saved
we are there working on a daily basis to
take the sick people from the various
community so other people can get
infected I can tell you sometime the
sorrow can be in me whenever I'm seeing
my citizen dying on a daily BSIS people
are getting sick they ding
my we then heard a commotion around the
side of the hospital a female patient
scared and wanting to see her family had
fled out a side exit hospital staff
tried to get her to go back inside as a
crowd
formed there's a crowd of people right
by the exit of the hospital where
patients are coming out
um clearly not the right way to contain
this
disease I people are sick die every day
some of the crowd told us that they were
family members of sick patients upset
about not being able to see and get
updates on their loved ones back out
front Paul was trying to get sick
family members admitted
inside five days since yeah my my
daughter my grand daughter and some
family members are bitting toiletting so
they're sick they have been sick so I
sent for the ambulance time ambulance
coming coming coming it came come so
today the ambulance is the came here but
then we didn't came here with them the
ster they haven't removed them they
haven't Carri in they don't tell
anything so it's
like it's like we
sacrificing part of the problem with
stopping the spread of Ebola is the lack
of treatment facilities and trained
Healthcare staff at JFK Hospital the
situation wasn't much
better we then headed to a clinic run by
Doctors Without Borders also known as
medicine s Frontier or msf that morning
msf had stopped admitting new patients
because of a planned expansion and
because one of their expat healthcare
workers had tested positive for Ebola
msf had been on the front lines fighting
Ebola since the beginning of the
outbreak and had been pleading with the
international Community for more
attention for some time they too however
are forced to turn away
patience Paul who we had met earlier at
Redemption hospital was now at msf
trying to get
treatment across the street we met
Victor Marcos who was trying to get his
older brother admitted to a treatment
center with no luck have you tried to go
to the
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hospital they say
no
call call call the ambulance call the
nothing
nothing we even go to gfk
andad and bring the person to the CER
and here they said no we can't enter
look for around so JFK says go to msf
msf says they can't take you no take
they can't take off what can you do now
what what can you do nothing that I
don't know nothing I can do because I
don't have any hospital to take me I
don't have amet to go for a and bring
here when you go so I don't know what to
do I'm
confused while we were talking to Victor
a woman who lived nearby approached and
told us that some sick people in her
community had been turned away from the
clinic they had just returned home and
she feared they might spread the virus
they said the people refuse then there
is no space there is no bed so they come
Park in the community and it's dangerous
for us and that's how it spreads further
because now they are very sick they were
vomiting toileting they going to their
house where are they right now they
behind living on the other side and you
call ambulances you call police no one
does anything
no the people even went there at the
gate and they refused please help the
people man people are dying is it okay
for us to talk to them they'll be okay
with
us
yeah what do what you think it's okay to
go what's your what's your
don't go inside the house what's your
Vibe I don't like your your face right I
don't know what to do after a short
debate we decided not to follow up on
the potentially infected neighbors for
fear of our own safety and because we
didn't want to give the impression that
we could provide
help we are trying to locate all of the
sick people we engage the sick people at
home
look at the place we live for IFA is wh
all of are
infected