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'We Are Laying Down Like Dogs': The Long Wait For Ebola Treatment in Liberia
For the second day in a row, Victor Kemey was trying to find a health center that would treat his sick son. The day before, they'd gone to John F. Kennedy hospital in Monrovia, but were turned away by staff who said there weren't enough beds. Overnight, his son's fever worsened.
And so at 6am Kemey brought the boy to the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Ebola treatment facility on the outskirts of Monrovia. MSF staff told him they didn't have room for new patients and asked him to wait outside the gates.
By 2pm, Victor's son was dead in the back seat of his car.
"After my son told me he was sick, the only alternative was to take him to the hospital," Kemey told VICE News. "The hospital should have told me what was happening to him, but they didn't. It's wrong."
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For the second day in a row, Victor Kemey was trying to find a health center that would treat his sick son. The day before, they'd gone to John F. Kennedy hospital in Monrovia, but were turned away by staff who said there weren't enough beds. Overnight, his son's fever worsened.
And so at 6am Kemey brought the boy to the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Ebola treatment facility on the outskirts of Monrovia. MSF staff told him they didn't have room for new patients and asked him to wait outside the gates.
By 2pm, Victor's son was dead in the back seat of his car.
"After my son told me he was sick, the only alternative was to take him to the hospital," Kemey told VICE News. "The hospital should have told me what was happening to him, but they didn't. It's wrong."
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