Đăng ký: VietNam News
On December 7th, the government of Sierra Leone announced another Sierra Leonean doctor named Aiah Solomon Konoyeima had died from Ebola. (Photo: Reuters) Dr. Aiah Solomon Konoyeima, died at an Ebola treatment unit in Hastings, near the capital Freetown, just one day after two of his colleagues also succumbed to the disease. Dr. Konoyeima became the 10th physician from Sierra Leone to die of the virus, the country’s Chief Medical Officer said. His death increases the alarm over the safety of doctors battling the deadly outbreak. Konoyeima worked at a children’s hospital in the capital Freetown and tested positive for Ebola about two weeks ago. The doctors are among more than 300 healthcare workers to have infected the deadly virus, which appears to be stabilising in Guinea and Liberia, but is still spreading at an alarming rate in Sierra Leone. Ebola is spread through the bodily fluids of people showing symptoms and people who have died of the disease. Because transmission requires close contact with those fluids, health workers are among the most at risk of contracting it and hundreds have become infected in this outbreak. The World Health Organisation said that the global death toll from the Ebola virus had increased to more than 7,000 out of a total nearly 18,000 cases of infection, almost entirely in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone./. |
