Ebola Centres Overflow as Sierra Leone Steps Up Fight

A Sierra Leonean boy looks out of a doorway in Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 16, 2014. 
Credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner

reuters.com - by Emma Farge - December 17, 2014

(Reuters) - Ebola centres in Sierra Leone overflowed on Wednesday as health workers combed the streets of the capital Freetown for patients, after the government launched a major operation to contain the epidemic in West Africa's worst-hit country.

President Ernest Bai Koroma said on national television that travel between all parts of the country had been restricted as part of "Operation Western Area Surge", and public gatherings would be strictly controlled in the run-up to Christmas.

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