Ebola Patient Escapes Quarantine Site In Liberia

The Ebola situation in Liberia is getting
more desperate as medical staff pursue a
man infected with Ebola through a market
near Monrovia as transfixed crowds watch.
The man, who has Ebola, had escaped
quarantine in Monrovia, searching for food and
armed with a stick, trying to avoid medical staff
who were in pursuit.
The man escaped from Monrovia’s Elwa
Hospital, which is overcrowded and struggling
to provide Ebola patients with food and water.
Locals are both sympathetic and frustrated.
A Liberian woman said, “The patients are
hungry, they are starving. No food, no water.”
Another Liberian, a man said, “we told the
Liberian Government from the beginning, we
do not want Ebola camp here. Today makes it
the fifth Ebola patient coming outside vomiting
and toileting.”
After a tense stand-off, the man was
surrounded by medical personnel and a doctor,
and is eventually bundled into an ambulance.
Liberia has the highest Ebola infection rate in
this latest outbreak, with around 700 deaths
out of more than 1300 suspected and
confirmed cases.