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Bodies don’t sleep, neither do babies: experiences at the only maternity hospital isolation unit in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola epidemic

Bodies don’t sleep, neither do babies: experiences at the only maternity hospital isolation unit... I arrived in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola epidemic on Oct. 22, 2014, as part of a traveling group of 5 US Public Health responders working on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and joining a larger field team spread throughout the country. This was the first time I had been called to an outbreak, and I knew 2 things: I would be assigned to the infection prevention control team covering the maternity hospital isolation unit, and I should be ready for “rough conditions.” The short commute from the hotel took an hour during afternoon traffic. We pulled into the hospital gates to a courtyard crowded with people. Because we had not been screened on entry to the hospital grounds, I suspected they hadn’t been either. I stood the recommended arm and a half length away from people in the crowded hospital courtyard, knowing this would be the first of many long hours spent at the maternity hospital. My colleague gave me a tour of the facility: the isolation unit for women with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD), hospital wards, screening areas, morgue, laboratory, pharmacy, patient waiting areas, and the incinerator. Little http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Wolters Kluwer Health

Bodies don’t sleep, neither do babies: experiences at the only maternity hospital isolation unit in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola epidemic

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Wolters Kluwer Health
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Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd
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0002-9378
DOI
10.1016/j.ajog.2015.07.028
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26220114
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Abstract

I arrived in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola epidemic on Oct. 22, 2014, as part of a traveling group of 5 US Public Health responders working on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and joining a larger field team spread throughout the country. This was the first time I had been called to an outbreak, and I knew 2 things: I would be assigned to the infection prevention control team covering the maternity hospital isolation unit, and I should be ready for “rough conditions.” The short commute from the hotel took an hour during afternoon traffic. We pulled into the hospital gates to a courtyard crowded with people. Because we had not been screened on entry to the hospital grounds, I suspected they hadn’t been either. I stood the recommended arm and a half length away from people in the crowded hospital courtyard, knowing this would be the first of many long hours spent at the maternity hospital. My colleague gave me a tour of the facility: the isolation unit for women with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD), hospital wards, screening areas, morgue, laboratory, pharmacy, patient waiting areas, and the incinerator. Little

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American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology – Wolters Kluwer Health

Published: Nov 1, 2015

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