Liberia: Ten Years On, Liberia's Ebola Survivors Still Fighting the Aftermath
Liberia, Sept. 28 -- Summary:
By Nukanah Kollie with New Narratives
SUAKOKO, Bong County - All was calm at Phebe Hospital on a recent afternoon. White buildings sat behind freshly cut grass. Ambulances stood nearby. The former Ebola Treatment Unit looked like an ordinary hospital ward.
More than a decade ago, it was part of an hourly battle between life and death. Klebu Pewu was a nurse here. As family and workmates got sick and died around her she tried to keep going. But the virus finally caught her. She was lucky. More than half of the healthcare workers infected died.
Ten years on, she says she avoids talking about it: "Too much sorrow and pain to me."
Pewu's grief is not unique, and it is not over. Families across the country st...
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