Liberia Media Centre

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has produced increasing circles of victims beyond the infected and the dead. Survivors, families, children, and health workers are dealing with the stress and trauma left behind by the disease. Meet E. Dash Karbar Sr, a psychosocial worker working in Island Clinic Ebola Treatment Unit. Dash is one of the 57 mental health clinicians trained by WHO and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on how to support their fellow healthcare worker colleagues, how to support Ebola patients, and how to serve as a liaison between Ebola patients and their families and communities.

Pieter Desloovere, a WHO spokesperson, was deployed as a communications officer to Liberia from September 2014 till January 2015. He shares his reflection of his experience on the ground, and looks back at how Liberia got to zero cases and its successes as well as his most touching moment