Dr Godfrey George on Monday 3 November became the fifth Sierra Leonean doctor to die from Ebola.
Chief Medical Officer, Dr Brima Kargbo said the medical superintendent at the Kambia public hospital died at the Hastings Treatment Centre where he was admitted to over the weekend after he tested positive for the disease.
He said Dr George drove himself on Friday from Kambia when he started feeling signs and symptoms of Ebola and checked himself into the Ebola Holding Centre at the Chinese-run Jui hospital but was later transferred to Hastings after his test result showed positive for the viral disease.
Dr George’s death followed that of Dr Olivette Buck wo passed away in September, and its means all doctors who have contracted the virus in the country have been killed by it.
It also brings to over 120 the number of health workers who have contracted the disease in Sierra Leone with over 100 dead.
© Politico 04/11/14
