On Ebola's front line, doctor finds grief and inspiration

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On Ebola's front line, doctor finds grief and inspiration

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebolas-front-line-doctor-finds-grief-inspiration-163057996.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/j7cJkReBOr6UEk56VqXHLw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-08-11T163427Z_1_LYNXMPEA7A0PW_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA-AFRICA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) put on their protective gear before entering an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun" align="left" title="Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) put on their protective gear before entering an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun" border="0" /></a>By Kate Kelland LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - After a month on the front line battling Ebola in a hospital in Sierra Leone, the memories that both haunt and inspire British doctor Tim O'Dempsey are of the children. You can't stop.&quot; O'Dempsey, a doctor with three decades' experience studying and fighting tropical diseases, was seconded to Sierra Leone by the World Health Organization to help battle the biggest outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever in history. Kenema hospital's three Ebola wards - one for suspected cases, the other two for confirmed infections - had barely 10 or 12 beds each, so patients lay on mattresses on the floors and in the corridors. Many of the staff themselves became ill, and many died, including the head nurse on the Ebola wards, Mballu Fonnie, and the doctor in charge of the unit, Sheik Umar Khan - declared a national hero by the government when he passed away last month at 39 after treating more than 100 Ebola sufferers.</p><br clear="all"/>

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