Health Sciences student returns from Ebola frontline
Posted on 25 February 2015
Bill, a part-time student on the Masters in Public Health (MPH) programme, took time away from the University and his job as a paramedic with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to work in an Ebola treatment centre in Port Loko. He was one of a group of other NHS volunteers to travel to Sierra Leone just before Christmas with aid agency GOAL.
During his stay, Bill cared for the critically ill patients, many of them women and children. And he trained over 100 local staff in safety protocols, including the use of protective equipment – all vital skills for staff treating the hundreds of patients who passed through the facility every week.