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Doctor who survived describes the misery of being an Ebola patient in Liberia
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO by Didrik Schanoh and Sami Yenigun Dec. 25, 2014
Dr. Senga Omeonga met us under a huge mango tree outside the St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Behind the main building, several dozens of disinfected rubber boots worn by health care workers were propped upside down on stakes planted on a patch of lawn.
This is the hospital where he works as general surgeon and the head of Infection Prevention Control. It's also where he came down with Ebola on August 2.
He says his days in treatment were "a living hell." And the experience has changed his view of the world — and the way he treats patients.
Read full interview.
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