{"id":298332,"date":"2017-03-02T07:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=298332"},"modified":"2017-03-02T07:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:02:41","slug":"hero-nurse-died-after-ebola-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/hero-nurse-died-after-ebola-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero nurse &#8216;died after Ebola prejudice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Liberian nurse Salome Karwah was one of those named as Time magazine&#8217;s person of the year in 2014 for her frontline work against Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>She died in Monrovia last week after giving birth to a son.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband told the BBC that nurses were unwilling to touch her for fear of contracting Ebola &#8211; even though she recently tested negative for Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital has not commented, and officials say they are investigating the death.<\/p>\n<p>James Harris said his wife had given birth to their fourth child by Caesarean section on 17 February &#8211; but had to be rushed back to hospital after suffering complications.<\/p>\n<p>They were kept waiting in their vehicle for three hours because the nurses were afraid to touch her, Mr Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally went into the emergency ward to bring a wheelchair to take my wife into the operation room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What really hurt me was a nurse on duty, instead of attending to the emergency, was standing by the front counter busy on Facebook,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He believes health workers did not act with more urgency &#8220;because she was an Ebola survivor and maybe they thought she still had Ebola&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Liberia Ebola epidemic over<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">How Ebola changed the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He also alleged that the hospital had discharged her early after the Caesarean, even though &#8220;her blood pressure was high&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Extraordinary woman&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Health officials confirmed the case was being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation is ongoing, there is not much I can say. As it is now, it is kind of scanty to come out with anything, we have to do a thorough investigation,&#8221; Liberia&#8217;s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Francis Kateh, told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We understand the condition of the husband. He&#8217;s feeling bad and so forth, but at the same time we have to be careful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hospital knew she had Ebola and they operated on her which put them at more risk,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Harris said his wife had lost many relatives to Ebola including her parents but she survived and had benefited from a US-Liberian vaccine regime.<\/p>\n<p>All recent tests that she had taken had come back negative, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Liberia was one of the three West African states devastated by the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Even before the epidemic, and after 14 years of brutal conflict, the country&#8217;s healthcare system was in crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the BBC&#8217;s Newsday programme on Wednesday, Time Magazine&#8217;s Africa Editor, Aryn Baker, described Salome Karwah, whom she had met, as &#8220;an extraordinary woman&#8221; who had gone back to the clinic where she worked as living proof that Ebola could be beaten.<\/p>\n<p>Before Ebola happened, there were only about 50 doctors working in the entire country, Ms Baker added.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Monrovia says that more than two years after the Ebola crisis which exposed the weakness of the health sector in Liberia, healthcare delivery is still faced with a huge challenge and is almost nonexistent in most of the country.<\/p>\n<p>It was thought that international intervention during the Ebola fight would culminate into the building of a stronger health sector; but the situation is so bad that those who can afford to still have to travel abroad to seek medical attention, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberian nurse Salome Karwah was one of those named as Time magazine&#8217;s person of the year in 2014 for her frontline work against Ebola. 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