#‎BREAKING‬ ‪#‎UPDATE‬: #HNNHealth Ebola claims 4th doctor in #SierraLeone after @WHO rejects transport to #Germany

Female ‪#‎Ebola‬ Dr Olivet Buck the Sierra Leonian Doctor I interviewed last month DIED on Saturday after the World Health Organization refused to transport her to Germany for treatment. A very influential top health official in that country and one of the biggest advocates for treating the people. The WHO said that they would rather give her the BEST care in Sierra Leone. 

I will be covering Freetown this Friday covering the 3 day lockdown to screen who has the disease and not. MORE on my fanpage. Dr. Olivet Buck died late Saturday, hours after the World Health Organization said it could not help medically transport her to Germany, chief medical officer Dr. Brima Kargbo confirmed to The Associated Press.

Sierra Leone had requested funds from WHO to transport Buck to Europe, saying the country could not afford to lose another doctor. WHO had said that it could not meet the request but instead would work to give Buck "the best care possible" in Sierra Leone, including possible access to experimental drugs.

More than 300 health workers have become infected with Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nearly half of them have died, according to WHO. So far, only foreign health and aid workers have been evacuated abroad from Sierra Leone and Liberia for treatment.

Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, Sierra Leone's top Ebola doctor, was being considered for evacuation to a European country when he died of the disease in late July.

Cuba's health ministry announced Friday it will send more than 160 health workers to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone, a move that WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said would "make a significant difference."

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