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.
