‘Unless immediate action is taken in Liberia – including isolating patients, a quarantine programme and protective gear – the death toll will likely reach into the thousands,’ says Dr Frank Glover, a medical missionary who partners with SIM International (known in the UK as Serving in Mission).
Glover was testifying before a US congressional subcommittee on August 7 about combatting the Ebola threat in Liberia.
In late July, two members of the medical team working at SIM’s ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, tested positive for Ebola. Team member Nancy Writebol and medical director Dr Kent Brantly were both flown back to the US to receive treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Two members of ELWA Hospital’s Liberian staff have died from the disease.
