Pregnant women in Liberia becoming victims of the ebola outbreak

[countryjake]

12. I'm hoping the same, since troops are building treatment ctrs, normal health-care...

seems to be desperately needed also. Surely someone in charge will recognize the lack of care for non-Ebola people.

I read that same heartbreaking article:

Heart-Rending Test in Ebola Zone: A Baby

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/world/africa/heart-rending-test-in-ebola-zone-a-baby.html?_r=0

SUAKOKO, Liberia — Peering inside a red Nissan hatchback that had pulled up to the gate of an Ebola treatment center here, a guard saw an older woman holding a tiny newborn, a young woman sprawled in the back seat and a man in his 60s crouched in the rear, gripping her clothing so she did not slide off.

The woman, the couple told aid workers who quickly gathered Saturday afternoon, was their daughter. She had been sick for a week and was bleeding profusely after giving birth prematurely about two hours before. Her boyfriend, the baby’s father, had recently been treated for Ebola, they added.

Workers asked the couple to wait outside the gate, where a masked man with a chlorine sprayer soaked the ground around them. Before sending the car to the triage area, a doctor opened a back door and saw no movement. Realizing he needed protective gear, he went to suit up, then examined the woman and pronounced her dead.

For her child, there were no clear protocols. No one touched the tiny girl, aside from the grandparents holding her. No one at the center had any experience in dealing with babies in the Ebola crisis, nor could they fully evaluate the dangers. They were caregivers, after all, at a place of last resort. In a country devastated by a terrible disease, where the fear of it is pervasive, what do you do with a vulnerable infant?