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Diary of UK nurse with Ebola reveals devastating suffering in Sierra Leone

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The nurse being treated for Ebola in a London hospital described her experiences working in Sierra Leone in a diary published only days earlier in a Scottish newspaper


In the piece, published by The Scotsman on Dec. 28, Pauline Cafferkey stated that before going to work in Sierra Leone's infectious “Red Zone," where there is a high rate of Ebola, she and her colleagues would wish each other good luck.



A nurse for 16 years, Cafferkey wrote she had been inspired to join the profession after seeing images from the famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s. As an associate public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire, she was part of a group of 50 National Health Service (NHS) health care workers who returned to the UK over the weekend after volunteering in Sierra Leone Read more...


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