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Ebola Survivor Dies After Neglect by Hospital Staff for Fear of Being Infected

A nurse and Ebola survivor, who was named Time magazine’s person of the year in 2014, has died after giving birth to a son.
Her death occurred amid claims by her husband that medical staff were unwilling to touch her, because she was a survivor of Ebola.
Salome Karwah, 28, from Liberia, gave birth to Jeramiah by cesarean section on February 17.
The mother-of-four, who tested negative for the disease, was re-admitted to hospital when she experienced complications after the birth.
Her husband, James Harris, said his wife started having convulsions and foamed at the mouth.
He told local newspaper, NPR: “Nurses came to help me, but the doctor told me that she would not touch her, and that if (Salome) stayed (at the hospital) she would die.”
He said that hospital workers did not treat her as quickly as they could have because of lingering superstitions about Ebola survivors.
During the Ebola crisis of 2014, Salome lost her mother, father and brother to the disease.
The couple, who met in 2013, both caught the disease in the summer of 2014.
Salome, who was pregnant at the time, her sister and Harris survived the outbreak.
When they recovered, they were hired by Doctors Without Borders to help care for sufferers at their unit in Monrovia.
While working for the charity, Salome was not afraid to touch people with the disease and soothed crying babies back to sleep.
As she had survived the usually deadly disease, she could touch sufferers and not be at risk of contracting Ebola again.
At the end of 2014, the nurse was named by Time Magazine, along with a group of “Ebola Fighters” as Person of the Year.
She married Harris in January 2016.

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