I am on night shift tonight. In the early morning before my night shift, my roommate came back from her shift feeling weighed down by...

Finally a day off after ten straight days of working, it just so happens that today is my birthday. Imagine my surprise when I opened my...

Before we started rounding, someone called out from the ETU to say that pregnant Watta just aborted. When we got into the ETU, Watta was...

Krubo who came here with three of her children, lost her second child early this morning, little Fatu who was wandering around two days...

More deaths today. Almost ninety percent of the patients in the Confirmed Ward now are from a single village. Pie died while her...

Seventeen-month-old Jackson, son of Fatu, spiked a fever and was readmitted to Suspected Ward to test for Ebola. He was initially tested...

Peter passed on early this morning not long after he asked me for water. He was the man with the hiccoughs. None of his relatives could...

Yesterday the long-awaiting departure of Naomi and her daughter, Josephine, from the ETU finally took place, free of the infection at...

Sadly close contacts with Ebola without protection begets more Ebola. The mothers and children of the two families that we admitted last...

It seemed all hell broke loose last evening when we arrived for the night shift. One of our night duty nurses was asked to switch to day...

Last night I reverted to doing night duty. With deaths and discharges, the census was down. The ambulance crew does not go out on...

A rare day off. We live on the campus of Cuttington University which is emptied of students because of the Ebola outbreak. It is one of...

Abraham, the man we helped into the Suspected Ward yesterday died last night. He did not get a blood sample drawn to test for Ebola as...

Early this morning Alfred, who is the sickest kid in the ward, managed to wander into the low-risk zone where we normally congregate,...

It seems almost everyone here is affected by Ebola and has lost someone in the family. In a small village of 68 inhabitants, a quarter of...

Patience who was confused yesterday and had one of the highest Ebola titers, died overnight. In the morning I raised the blanket that...

One could almost predict which patients will not be doing well. The ones with bleeding almost always fail to triumph over the infection....

I knew right from the start of my clinical years in medical school that I did not wish to be a pediatrician. I cannot bear to see them...

Two more patients died overnight. Annie, 52, roomed with her 22 year-old daughter passed away. She only manifested weakness besides...

Last night DEATH claimed two more lives; 5-year-old Beyan cared for lovingly by his Papa for days on end but finally lost his battle...