For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over | Soka Moses

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🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In 2014, as a newly trained physician, Soka Moses took on one of the toughest jobs in the world: treating highly contagious patients at the height of Liberia's Ebola outbreak. In this intense, emotional talk, he details what he saw on the frontlines of the crisis -- and reveals the challenges and stigma that thousands of survivors still face.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features Ebola combatant Soca Moses recorded live at TEDmed 2017.
0:07.0	June 13, 2014, started as a routine Friday in Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
0:18.0	Redemption is the largest free public health hospital in the city.
0:22.6	We are called upon to serve hundreds of thousands of people.
0:26.6	In the best of times, it puts strain on our resources.
0:30.6	Monthless supplies run out within weeks, and patients with our beds would be seated in chairs.
0:35.6	That summer, we had a nurse who had been sick for a while,
0:40.2	sick enough to be admitted in our hospital.
0:43.0	But our treatment didn't seem to be helping her.
0:45.3	Her symptoms were getting worse.
0:47.0	Dariya, severe abdominal pain, fever and weakness.
0:51.6	On that particular Friday, she developed severe respiratory distress, and her eyes
0:56.4	were menacingly rare. One of my fellow doctors, a general surgeon, became suspicious of her condition.
1:03.7	He said her symptoms were suggestive of Ebola. We kept a close watch on her. We tried to help her.
1:10.5	We were treating her for malaria, typhoid, and gastroenteritis.
1:14.6	We didn't know it, but by then it was too late.
1:17.6	The next morning, I walked in to check on my patient.
1:21.6	I could tell by the look on her eyes that she was filled with fear.
1:25.6	I gave her reassurance, but shortly after she died of Ebola.
1:33.8	For me, her death was very personal, but this was just the beginning. A virtual, biological bomb
1:41.0	had exploded. But the war spread faster than the virus and panic spread across the hospital.
1:48.5	All the patients ran away. Then all the nurses and doctors ran away. This was the beginning of our
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