Dr Chris Lewis: interview 3 and PDF transcript

[00:00:00] Continues from previous interview, explains them trying to get 70% capacity on Ebola beds, the changes made in September; laboratories, investing in existing intervention initially then responding on scale later. [00:03:00] Trying to increase patient capacity in Sierra Leone, historical military links between the British military and Sierra Leone military. [00:04:20] Lessons for the future, reflects that the response delivered met the scale of the problem, not an overreaction in response. [00:09:30] Civil War in Sierra Leone, its impact, compares how other health systems would have done with Ebola. [00:11:27] End of interview.

28/03/2015

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