Sierra Leone to search house-to-house for Ebola patients
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 05:30
in Health & Medicine
Health workers in Sierra Leone will seek Ebola victims and anyone with whom they have had contact, transporting those infected to new British-built treatment centres, according to a government plan announced this week.
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