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Mr. Levi Bollinger
English 9.1
September 28 2015
Wake up call “Please…No” a young man pleads as two men covered with protective equipment drag him into an isolation room. He is thrown onto the ice-cold ground as he sees the doors being slammed behind him. As he calms down in the dark room, his body contorts with agony as blood runs out of his nose, eyes and ears. He thinks to himself what he has done to deserve this. He shouts into the hole in the doors: “Anybody, please help me” as the life in his eyes fades away. He sinks down back to the cold ground as tears not of blood but hopelessness stream down his cheeks. This is what an Ebola victim would have felt like. All in all, Ebola is a deadly disease that has taken many lives in West …show more content…
Austin S. Jallah, is one who lived to tell the tale. Just like any other patient, he experienced the pain and struggle of going through Ebola. Austin, a student nurse, was treating a patient in the emergency department of the hospital. He later found out that that patient died of Ebola and quickly reported himself. Three days later, he started to show symptoms like fever and vomiting. When Austin was taken into the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU), he was “very much in pain”. “The whole experience was traumatic for me. The virus really destroys your immune system,” he recalls. Thankfully, after 20 days in the ETU, his condition was much better so he was discharged. Since September 2014, he has been working for WHO as an “expert patient trainer”. WHO states that only people who have experienced the sickness can truly explain what their needs were during their illness. Austin is part of a mobile WHO training team, training and teaching other survivors so they can become trainers as well (Liberia: Sharing his experience fighting Ebola. “I am grateful that my Ebola experience can impact the knowledge of our health workers and help to eradicate this disease from Liberia” …show more content…
People like Bill Gates and organizations like WHO started to work harder in the world’s fight with epidemics. WHO, the World Health Organization has taken a huge part in helping and treating patients in the recent Ebola epidemic. But they are trying to improve their readiness for another epidemic in the future. Lisa Schlein from Voice of America states that the WHO has begun the process of “producing new guidelines for responding more quickly and effectively to Ebola to other global epidemics and emerging diseases”. WHO is focusing on their speed and rapid deployment of medical teams. “We are better off today than we were a year ago” WHO states. Schlein also reports that WHO is focusing on IHR (International Health Regulations) and how to strengthen them in their operations. She goes on stating that the IHR is an “important legal instrument aimed at protecting populations by preventing and controlling the international spread of disease”. WHO is trying their best to improve their methods and resources in fighting epidemics and global
Mr. Levi Bollinger
English 9.1
September 28 2015
Wake up call “Please…No” a young man pleads as two men covered with protective equipment drag him into an isolation room. He is thrown onto the ice-cold ground as he sees the doors being slammed behind him. As he calms down in the dark room, his body contorts with agony as blood runs out of his nose, eyes and ears. He thinks to himself what he has done to deserve this. He shouts into the hole in the doors: “Anybody, please help me” as the life in his eyes fades away. He sinks down back to the cold ground as tears not of blood but hopelessness stream down his cheeks. This is what an Ebola victim would have felt like. All in all, Ebola is a deadly disease that has taken many lives in West …show more content…
Austin S. Jallah, is one who lived to tell the tale. Just like any other patient, he experienced the pain and struggle of going through Ebola. Austin, a student nurse, was treating a patient in the emergency department of the hospital. He later found out that that patient died of Ebola and quickly reported himself. Three days later, he started to show symptoms like fever and vomiting. When Austin was taken into the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU), he was “very much in pain”. “The whole experience was traumatic for me. The virus really destroys your immune system,” he recalls. Thankfully, after 20 days in the ETU, his condition was much better so he was discharged. Since September 2014, he has been working for WHO as an “expert patient trainer”. WHO states that only people who have experienced the sickness can truly explain what their needs were during their illness. Austin is part of a mobile WHO training team, training and teaching other survivors so they can become trainers as well (Liberia: Sharing his experience fighting Ebola. “I am grateful that my Ebola experience can impact the knowledge of our health workers and help to eradicate this disease from Liberia” …show more content…
People like Bill Gates and organizations like WHO started to work harder in the world’s fight with epidemics. WHO, the World Health Organization has taken a huge part in helping and treating patients in the recent Ebola epidemic. But they are trying to improve their readiness for another epidemic in the future. Lisa Schlein from Voice of America states that the WHO has begun the process of “producing new guidelines for responding more quickly and effectively to Ebola to other global epidemics and emerging diseases”. WHO is focusing on their speed and rapid deployment of medical teams. “We are better off today than we were a year ago” WHO states. Schlein also reports that WHO is focusing on IHR (International Health Regulations) and how to strengthen them in their operations. She goes on stating that the IHR is an “important legal instrument aimed at protecting populations by preventing and controlling the international spread of disease”. WHO is trying their best to improve their methods and resources in fighting epidemics and global