{"id":4223,"date":"2014-07-18T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:17:18","slug":"ebola-in-sierra-leone-battling-sadness-fear-and-disgust-on-the-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/ebola-in-sierra-leone-battling-sadness-fear-and-disgust-on-the-frontline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola in Sierra Leone: battling sadness, fear and disgust on the frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ane Bj\u00f8ru Fjelds\u00e6ter is a 31-year-old psychologist from Trondheim, Norway. For the past month, she has been working for M\u00e9decins sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, helping to fight the largest ever outbreak of Ebola, which has killed more than 600 people in three countries. She provides support and counselling to patients and their families, as well as to the staff whose job it is to deal with the dead bodies.<\/p>\n<p>I was expecting the Ebola epidemic to be quite gruesome and unlike anything I had seen before. But I really didn&#8217;t expect its magnitude \u2013 this outbreak is enormous. In Sierra Leone, it killed off a lot of health workers before MSF even arrived&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/poverty-matters\/2014\/jul\/17\/ebola-sierra-leone-epidemic\" 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>Ane Bj\u00f8ru Fjelds\u00e6ter is a 31-year-old psychologist from Trondheim, Norway. For the past month, she has been working for M\u00e9decins sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, helping to fight the largest ever outbreak of Ebola, which has killed more than 600 people in three countries. She provides support and counselling to patients and their [&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":[258,256,1111,1119,2893,1950,1951,257,684,2892,4714,1135,254,2894,4692],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-health-workers","tag-medecins-sans-frontieres","tag-msf","tag-news","tag-norway","tag-outbreak-of-ebola","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trondheim","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","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=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/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=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}