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NEW YORK TIMES --by Jeffrey Gettleman Dec. 7, 2014
KERRY TOWN, Sierra Leone —On a freshly cleared hillside outside the capital, where the trees have been chopped down and replaced with acres of smooth gravel, the new Ebolatreatment center seems to have everything. There are racks of clean pink scrubs and white latex boots, bathrooms that smell like Ajax, solar-powered lights, a pharmacy tent, even a thatch-roofed hut to relax in.
But one piece is missing: staff. The facility opened recently with a skeleton crew. Now, in an especially hard-hit area where people are dying every day because they cannot get into an Ebola clinic, 60 of the 80 beds at the Kerry Town Ebola clinic are not being used.
It is like this with a lot here: good intentions, bad planning. Aid officials in Sierra Leone say poor coordination among aid groups, government mismanagement and some glaring inefficiencies are costing countless lives...
Ambulances, for example, are being used to ferry blood samples, sometimes just one test tube at a time, while many patients die at home after waiting days for an ambulance to come....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/world/africa/as-ebola-rages-in-sierra-leone-poor-planning-thwarts-efforts.html?_r=0
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U.K. Criticized for Failing to Curb Ebola in Sierra Leone
BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK by Makiko Kitamura and Silas Gbandia Dec. 8, 2014
The U.K. government and British charity Save the Children are under scrutiny for the management of an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, the West African nation poised to overtake Liberia as the worst-affected country.
The epidemic is spreading in Sierra Leone at a pace that isn’t matched by containment efforts, Doctors Without Borders said on Dec. 2. Only 11 beds supplied by the U.K. were operational as of Nov. 27, the medical aid charity said. Save the Children said today that 40 beds are operational at its Kerry Town center, and the U.K. government said it is funding almost 700 available beds, including those at diagnostic holding centers built by others.
Britain is facing mounting criticism in Sierra Leone from local media and government officials, while foreign aid workers have also voiced concern about Save the Children’s capabilities. The U.K. has been taking the lead in its former colony, with the U.S. focusing on Liberia and France concentrating on former colony Guinea.
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-08/u-dot-k-dot-criticized-for-ebola-aid-efforts-in-sierra-leone