Declan Walsh
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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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And we got speaking in French.
He told me that his son had been going to school just a few days earlier when the teacher sent him home.
Apparently, he had a headache and a fever.
The family tried to look after him for the first few days, but he got worse.
And then he said that the night before, Emmanuel started to bleed uncontrollably out of his nose.
And so they rushed him to this hospital.
And when he was lying there, he had this tissue stuffed up his nose to try and staunch that bleeding.
And what was even more striking was that just a couple of yards away, two beds down, there was lying the body of a 21-year-old woman called Christine Barhati, who had died just hours earlier.
The doctor said that she had been doing fine in the evening and then suddenly, at about two in the morning, she fell into a coma.
and died very quickly.
He said they were unable to revive her.
Her shoes were still under the bed where she had left them.
Her belongings were in a bag.
But what was so disturbing about that is that the body of a person who has just died of Ebola is extremely contagious.
And yet the remains of this poor woman were just covered by this thin sheet and people were walking in and out of this ward with very little protection, including, it has to be said, the dad of this boy.
This just seemed to go against every precaution that you could take against Ebola.
No, the doctors were very well aware of the risks.
This is the space we've got available to us.
These are the resources that we have.
We only have a certain amount of protective equipment.
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