11th Sierra Leonean doctor dies of disease

11th Sierra Leonean doctor dies of disease

11th Sierra Leonean doctor dies of disease 67-year-old Victor Willoughby succumbed to Ebola on Thursday, December 18, and is the 11th do... 06:28

11th Sierra Leonean doctor
dies of disease
67-year-old Victor Willoughby succumbed to
Ebola on Thursday, December 18, and is the 11th
doctor from the country to die of the disease.
Sierra Leone has lost one of its most senior
doctors to the raging Ebola outbreak.
67-year-old Victor Willoughby succumbed to
Ebola on Thursday, December 18, and is the 11th
doctor from the country to die of the disease.
Dr Willoughby’s death was confirmed by Sierra
Leone’s Chief Medical Officer, Brima Kargbo .
“Dr. Victor Willoughby was a mentor to us
physicians and a big loss to the medical
profession. He has always been available to help
junior colleagues,” Kargbo said.
M'Baimba Baryoh , a doctor who described Dr
Willoughby as a “very good friend” said:
“We've lost personal friends and colleagues we've
worked with. It's extremely depressing and
frustrating. You can talk to someone today and
tomorrow they are Ebola-infected. The tension,
the depression, it's a lot of pressure. You start
having nightmares because of Ebola.”
The late physician is said to have died while an
experimental drug he was to be treated with was
thawing. The drug, ZMAb had been flown in from
Brussels but Willoughby died before a dosage
could be administered to him.
Willoughby was the 12th Sierra Leonean doctor to
be infected with the disease.