{"id":3632,"date":"2014-07-05T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T05:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2014-07-05T12:15:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T05:15:33","slug":"ebola-problems-highlighted-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/ebola-problems-highlighted-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola problems highlighted in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone may be going undetected, grassroots doctors warn as they highlighted the impoverished country&#8217;s problems in combating the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The medical journal The Lancet on Saturday published a letter from the doctors on the heels of ministerial talks in Ghana, where a senior UN health official on Thursday said the outbreak in West Africa, the worst in the history of Ebola, may persist for several more months.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries in the world, suffers a chronic lack of doctors, diagnostic tools, a disease-monitoring network and even clothing to protect health workers, the letter said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Ebola-problems-highlighted-in-Sierra-Leone\/tabid\/417\/articleID\/351529\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone may be going undetected, grassroots doctors warn as they highlighted the impoverished country&#8217;s problems in combating the virus. The medical journal The Lancet on Saturday published a letter from the doctors on the heels of ministerial talks in Ghana, where a senior UN health official on Thursday said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,1111,1119,2170,257,4714,1135,254,4692],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-ebola-in-sierra-leone","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}