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| Ebola: WHO Members Who Refused Evacuation Of Dr Buck Need To Be Held To Account by thegoodjoehunt3(m): 2:55am On Sep 16, 2014 |
[b]Albert, is a GP based in the West Midlands. His sister Olivet Buck was a doctor too: though her work was quite different. She practised in the land of their birth, Sierra Leone. For the past few months she was fighting in the desperate battle against Ebola ravaging parts of her country. Last Tuesday came the awful news that she’d caught the virus. To save her life, local campaigners called for her to be evacuated to Germany to receive treatment – all three previous doctors who had caught the disease in the country had died. Sierra Leone’s president backed her, saying that a hospital in Hamburg was “in readiness to receive her”. Last Friday, though, the World Health Organisation said it would not allow her to leave Sierra Leone, and refused to fund the move. Desperate attempts were made to try to overturn this decision but on Sunday came the news everyone was dreading: Olivet had died. Denying potentially life-saving treatment to those on the frontline can only work against this international effort. Albert feels very angry about his sister’s treatment. “Those involved in this decision need to be held to account,” he says. Health workers from a wide range of countries are working alongside each other to fight Ebola. How can it be right to give some the chance of life when they contract the disease, and condemn others to death? And though it’s too late to save Olivet, Albert now wants a change of WHO policy so that her fellow health workers know they’ll be fully supported if they’re unfortunate enough to contract the virus. That way, he feels, her death need not have been in vain. And he says of the WHO’s decision: “I think it showed a callous lack of compassion for a devoted frontline clinician, especially since there is now awareness of equipped units elsewhere to which other patients have been evacuated and successfully treated.” The combination of specialist equipment, drugs and a clean healthcare environment can have rapid results, he points out. Olivet was, in contrast, working in an overcrowded unit with poor sanitary conditions – in a part of the capital, Freetown, that has become densely populated since refugees fled the country’s civil war in the 1990s. “The best care possible” is a meaningless phrase in this context. The WHO decision seems to be making a distinction between western health workers in the region who are, rightly, given live-saving treatment – and those from the countries concerned who are taking equal risks, are equally courageous and are equally important in the struggle, but condemned to take their chances in a poorly funded healthcare system that can barely cope. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/15/ebola-doctor-death-olivet-buck-sierra-leone [/b] |
| Re: Ebola: WHO Members Who Refused Evacuation Of Dr Buck Need To Be Held To Account by Dayjhihannon01(m): 2:59am On Sep 16, 2014 |
We don hear... RIP 2 d dead |
| Re: Ebola: WHO Members Who Refused Evacuation Of Dr Buck Need To Be Held To Account by phreakabit(m): 5:24am On Sep 16, 2014 |
thegoodjoehunt3: Apparently she was Negroid. The earlier people wake up n smell the coffee the better. Free airlifts to better health care facilities for Whites only. R.I.P to her. 1 Like |
| Re: Ebola: WHO Members Who Refused Evacuation Of Dr Buck Need To Be Held To Account by Nobody: 8:43am On Sep 16, 2014 |
thegoodjoehunt3: [color=#000099] RIP to the dead, but I still don't see why WHO officials should be held accountable here. WHO has not been sponsoring the other whites-their governments and/ or organisations they work for had been footing all bills. I believe if she had a real sponsor, maybe she would have been evacuated. Her president backed her, with what? |
| Re: Ebola: WHO Members Who Refused Evacuation Of Dr Buck Need To Be Held To Account by phreakabit(m): 10:48am On Sep 16, 2014 |
candy: You have a point there, but check the quote from OP's post below. The "WHO" calls this an "international "effort, and even raised an alarm about the dwindling amount of doctors in those regions. . . If they were so concerned about those figures I don't see how much saving one doctor would have cost them. Denying potentially life-saving treatment to those on the frontline can only work against this international effort. Albert feels very angry about his sister’s treatment. “Those involved in this decision need to be held to account,” he says. 1 Like |
| Re: Ebola: WHO Members Who Refused Evacuation Of Dr Buck Need To Be Held To Account by thegoodjoehunt3(m): 12:12pm On Sep 16, 2014 |
candy:Apart from the funding, WHO members refused to allow her leave the country. |
| Re: Ebola: WHO Members Who Refused Evacuation Of Dr Buck Need To Be Held To Account by Nobody: 2:30pm On Sep 16, 2014 |
thegoodjoehunt3: Apart from the funding, WHO members refused to allow her leave the country.If she had sponsors and they still didn't allow her to leave;that's WICKED of them and they should pay dearly. But the unfortunate question is: How and by who? What a pity. @phreakabit, Like you pointed out, one would expect that WHO and the international community will do everything possible to save the few doctors on ground and prevent a further decline in number. Unfortunately, the race issue played here, so typical. It is well. 1 Like |
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