Clarissa Ward
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326 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Jun
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Hello.
The lines here are not fabulous.
Well, I would say, Dave, there has definitely been a big surge in the amount of aid and resources coming in, the infrastructure being built up to help try to contain this vicious outbreak.
You're seeing various groups, Aleema, MSF, IMC, who have been furiously working around the clock to construct these temporary Ebola treatment centers, which are a crucial piece of the puzzle because they ensure that patients with Ebola are being isolated.
The problem up until now was that a lot of these hospitals, especially in more rural areas,
had wards where there would be Ebola patients and non-Ebola patients in the next door bed to each other.
And obviously that presents serious, serious problems.
So definitely seeing some improvements, but it is going to be a very tough few months ahead.
Well, the first thing to mention is that to go into the so-called red zone where suspected Ebola cases are kept, you have to put on an insane amount of personal protective equipment for obvious reasons.
But the first thing I noticed was for doctors who are wearing this every single day going in and out of the red zone, it is just exhausting.
It's incredibly hot, unbearably hot because there's no breathing material.
Very heavy, difficult to breathe.
The thing you notice once you actually go into the tent where we met several patients who were suffering from Ebola is just how vicious and awful this virus is.
We met a 10-year-old boy who was struggling to keep food down, who had terrible diarrhea, who was improving and dying.
which is a good thing, but who still just looked so painfully dazed and ill with blisters all over his mouth and clearly kind of just in a lot of pain.
And I think also it's very, very difficult for these patients because there is a dehumanizing component to this.
They are sitting there in their darkest moment, feeling so desperately ill, fearing for their lives.
They can't be next to their loved ones.
The only people they interact with are wearing hazmat suits.
So there's no personal touch.
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