Ebola health workers face life or death decision on pregnant women - experts:

REUTERS    by Kieran Guilbert                                                                                       Jan. 14, 2015    

LONDON --Health workers treating women with pregnancy-related problems in Ebola-hit countries have to make life or death decisions for their patients and themselves, experts said on Wednesday.

Health workers have very little time to decide whether a pregnant women with complications is free of Ebola and should have the necessary intervention, or may have Ebola and should have minimal procedures, experts said in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Dr Benjamin Black, a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, said poor infrastructure and limited access to laboratory services meant that test results for suspected Ebola patients could take more than 24 hours to arrive, in which time a woman and her foetus may die....

Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which opened in Sierra Leone on Saturday the first care centre for pregnant women in the current Ebola epidemic, said the survival rate from the virus for expectant mothers was virtually zero.
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Link to BJOG,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0528.13286/abstract