The Ebola outbreak – which has killed at least 2,000 people across Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria – threatens to devastate affected countries’ health systems into the future, local doctors have warned.
Dr Oliver Johnson, programme director for the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership at Freetown’s Connaught Hospital, believes that the damage being caused to the heath sector is similar to that seen during the country’s decade-long civil war.
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