Episode 2
The Upper West Africa Ebola epidemic has ended. The foreign nurses and doctors have left. The tented treatment centres packed away. The gates of what remains locked against the world.
As of February 2016, 28,000 people were affected by the epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone with an estimated 3,956 recorded deaths in Sierra Leone. Poor people and people in rural areas were disproportionately affected by Ebola in what remains a wounded and fragile country scarred by years of conflict.
Ending Ebola has not ended this country’s dire problems. Death from malaria, T.B. typhoid, child and maternal mortality continue. Ending Ebola involved a major mobilisation of national and international players. To address its on-going problems, a similar kind of mobilisation is required.