Ibrahim Tholley,
Ebola Paramedic, Handicap International:As soon as you get into the ambulance you are dead. That is the perception they have. So whenever they see an ambulance they say, "if you go in there you will die."
The community members detected that they wanted to escape. So they blocked the car. We tracked the patient and the mother. Isolated the child in the car. All we know is that she is seriously sick. She cannot speak, she cannot walk.
To end Ebola we need to cut down the chain of transmission. If one person is sick you take them out of the majority so others will not be affected, too.
Edmond Cole, Ebola Contact Tracer, Plan International:
The person who died was a confirmed Ebola case. Once they knew that someone in the house they were staying with was confirmed - the person was confirmed Ebola positive. Most of them ran away for fear of being quarantined. So those who had contact with the person are in hiding.
You don't take chances. Those contacts might have had direct contact with the dead person. You can never tell. So we need to make sure we get information on there whereabouts and follow up with them for the required period.
It's not easy for everything to go on as it should. Imagine a house has been quarantined but there is no food and no security. It is very difficult to monitor.
This man is a key contact. Because he is related to those over there. And both of them washed the dead body.
Ebola Tracer: "Did you know the person who died? And were you close to her? It's not so bad if you answer that you touched her. Even if they quarantine you its not so bad."
They have had contact with the deceased. All of them, this entire area will have to be quarantined.
Abdul Parker, Chief Supervisor, Safe Burials:We started doing the burials August 10, 2014. Since that point until now we've buried over 5,000 people. It's a big change in the way we've buried people up until now. We can now bury family members in a safe and dignified manner.
It plays a very very vital role because it stops the way people at first were handling bodies. Because before when people were not afraid of the disease. They touched the body and washed the body and all those things. But because of the vast sensitization that is going on when their loved ones die, they call the burial team to collect the body. It cuts dramatically in the cases of Ebola.
The future for Sierra Leone, I believe that things will get better once Ebola is finished. The world is looking at us so I see a better future for Sierra Leone. After the fight against Ebola. Post Ebola will be fine for us anyway.
