Declan Walsh
speaker
486 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Declan Walsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was really a road just to name.
It was made of mud.
It was extremely rough and bumpy.
But all along that road, we passed these Congolese military checkpoints.
And that was because we were passing through territory where at least three or four different militias were known to operate.
So that was complicating the response and also preventing aid workers from getting to this town.
And when we got to Mongbolo itself, we went straight to the public hospital, which we knew was the center of treatment efforts.
We were expecting really to see the architecture of an Ebola response that you classically think of.
For some of us, it's maybe a Hollywood reference, like movies like Outbreak and so on, these large white tents, lots of people walking around in sealed suits.
Right.
But there was almost nothing.
And we went into the actual Ebola wards themselves.
We put on the full protective equipment.
We spoke to the staff.
We found a doctor who wanted to take us inside.
And there, honestly, it was pretty shocking.
Apart from the doctor who brought me in, the ward was just full of people who had come to help the Ebola patients.
Usually relatives who had come to bring food or water because those things aren't provided by the hospital, but they were wearing almost no protective equipment.
And at the end of the room in the corner, we found this young boy, five-year-old boy called Emmanuel, who was lying on this bare mattress on his own, hooked up to a very simple drip.
And his dad was standing over him, looking so concerned.
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