Kenema State Hospital

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Kenema Government Hospital
Sponsorship Ministry of Health and Sanitation
place Kenema , Sierra Leone
Coordinates 7 ° 52 '31 "  N , 11 ° 11' 5"  W Coordinates: 7 ° 52 '31 "  N , 11 ° 11' 5"  W.
Website www.health.gov.sl
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Kenema State Hospital

The Kenema State Hospital ( English Kenema Government Hospital ) is a state hospital in Kenema , Sierra Leone . It specializes in the research and treatment of Lassa fever and was expanded to include a medical department for this purpose in 2013.

Ebola epidemic 2014

The hospital also treated patients who contracted Ebola during the 2014 epidemic . There were many deaths among doctors and nurses. In September 2014, complaints were made that the staff had not received any wages for weeks. In late October 2014, a medical study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine . Symptoms and the course of the disease were described on the basis of a patient group of 106 people.

Research into Lassa fever , which began at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) at Nixon Memorial Hospital in Segbwema , continues in the house.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kenema Government Hospital. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium. ( Memento of March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved June 15, 2017.
  2. ^ Construction of New Lassa Ward at Kenema Government Hospital Nearing Completion. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, September 22, 2013 ( Memento from March 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Ebola hospital workers walk out over pay. AlJazeera, September 13, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2014
  4. Clinical Illness and Outcomes in Patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone. In: The New England Journal of Medicine , October 29 2014, doi : 10.1056 / NEJMoa1411680 , URL: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411680
  5. ^ Kenema Government Hospital. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, date unknown ( March 31, 2012 memento from the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 2, 2014