Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone key in training health providers

Shunned in their communities, they provide invaluable insight to doctors and nurses

 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation      by Carolyn Dunn                                       Jan, 12, 2015

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone --The role of survivors has proven so valuable to training health care professionals who will be treating Ebola for the first time that the course, run by the Ebola response teams for the International Organization of Migration (IOM) and World Health Organization (WHO) is now in high demand, training up to 60 much-needed health care workers a week in Freetown.

... survivor Fonti Kargbo, who often assumes the role of a patient, is timing each scenario to make sure the trainees aren’t in their hot, protective gear for too long.

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Fonti Kargbo survived Ebola, but lost his wife and two children to the virus. He wants to help train medical professionals to save other families from what he has been through. (Carolyn Dunn/CBC)