2017-01-12

(Source: Partners in Health) Hundreds of Ebola survivors began losing their sight in Sierra Leone in 2015. Why was it so hard for us to see they needed help? When the number of new Ebola cases finally began to level off in Sierra Leone in early 2015, nurse John Welch, a Partners In Health clinical director in the northern Port Loko District, went to investigate some of the health complaints he was hearing from Ebola survivors. Many of the farmers and street vendors and others that PIH had discharged from its Ebola treatment unit were sounding less than cured. Welch had sent them back into the world after a final chlorine spray dubbed the 'happy shower,' but now they were describing...

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