Will Pooley

Will Pooley interviewed by Mark Honigsbaum on 24/05/2015. Will Pooley was the first British nurse to contract Ebola. Will went to Sierra Leone in 2014 with a small, local NGO, The Shepherd’s Hospice. Will volunteered at the Ebola Isolation Unit at Kenema Government Hospital in the east of Sierra Leone. He worked with a team of Sierra Leonean staff, many who also became infected and over 30 of whom died. Kenema was one of the worst affected districts in the early stages of the outbreak. Will contracted Ebola six weeks after starting to work at Kenema. He was flown out of Sierra Leone and treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London where he made a complete recovery, he was given the drug ZMapp. He returned to Freetown to continue his work on the Ebola response, this time at Connaught Hospital in Freetown. Will is not only an Ebola nurse but also survived Ebola.

24/05/2015

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