The British nurse who survived Ebola told an international summit today the world must avoid ‘at all cost’ the ‘horror and misery’ of watching young children die from the disease in horrific, squalid conditions.
The Defeating Ebola conference took place in London today to tackle the epidemic, with more than 20 countries and international aid organisations pledging financial and medical help.
Visibly upset and at times overwhelmed by his emotions, Mr Pooley retold the case of a brother and sister, aged four and two, who he cared for in Sierra Leone.
He described the ‘squalid’ conditions they were treated in, telling how the young boy died with a pained grimace on his face lying naked in a pool of his own diarrhoea.
The little girl, described by Mr Pooley as ‘beautiful’, died a day after her brother, a puzzled look on her tiny face as she lay covered in her own blood.
Pleading with the world’s governments, Mr Pooley, said: ‘My specific fear is the horror and the misery of these deaths.
‘And I just don’t know what happens if that is repeated one million times and so I say, at all costs we can’t let that happen.’
British nurse who survived Ebola tells international summit of ‘horror and misery’ as he watched young children in Sierra Leone suffer slow and agonising deaths http://goo.gl/tN29lo http://2127news.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1412254211541_wps_5_British_Ebola_survivor_Wi.jpgThe British nurse who survived Ebola told an international summit today the world must avoid ‘at all cost’ the ‘horror and misery’ of watching young children die from the disease in horrific, squalid conditions.
The Defeating Ebola conference took place in London today to...The British nurse who survived Ebola told an international summit today the world must avoid 'at all cost' the 'horror and misery' of watching young children die from the disease in horrific, squalid conditions.
The Defeating Ebola conference took place in London today to tackle the epidemic,...
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