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Video: Male nurse in Liberia is treating patients with Ebola

The conditions under dozens of thousands of people are hospitalized in Africa are tragic

Newsroom October 10 08:33

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The patient bleeds and he is so week that can’t even hold his head straight to drink some water… The male nurse tries to relieve him by wetting his lips. wet his lips
The patient is one of the dozen thousands Ebola patients that currently remain hospitalized on the so called “hospitals” of Liberia. The conditions are tragic. People lying on the floors of concrete rooms, no welfare, no care for those suffering and simply fading away and most of all without any security measures to prevent the virus of transmitting.

That is how the Ebola infected patients are treated in Africa. In Liberia is believed that there is one bed for two patients.
One of the male nurses accepted to carry a camera while treating the patients in order to present the true reflection of what is happening in the country. “Life is hard and then you die, what else can we do” he wonders, and adds “We need to take the risk and take care of the patients, to do our best and try to prevent our country from disappearing of the map. ”
The male nurse gives a staggering description of  the current daily life at the hospital:” “We have so many patients here who are anxious about their lives and scream while suffering. Some of them die after falling into a coma. Others need help. Some can’t even move. In some cases there is nothing we can do so we just stand by and watch them die. we see patients who cannot do anything about them”. It is worth mentioning that he only had one day of training for this position.
The day of the video he helped a patient to drink some water. … a small victory.
One of the most shattering images of the video that the male nurse recorded  is when some patients when patients become aware of the camera. They greed and bravely enough passing the message to the outside world, a message of hope, that they will soon be part of it again.

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