Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto, Who Helped Lead Ebola Fight in Liberia, Dies at 59

Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto, who died on May 5, was a doctor instrumental in curbing the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Liberia.
Credit Zoom Dosso/Getty Images

submitted by Carrie La Jeunesse

nytimes.com - by CLAIR MacDOUGALL - MAY 10, 2016

Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto, a Ugandan doctor who went to Liberia at the height of the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and helped turn the tide in the battle against the disease, died on May 5 in Kampala, Uganda. She was 59.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, her daughter Acom Victoria said.

Dr. Atai-Omoruto, at the request of the World Health Organization, arrived in Liberia in July 2014 with a team of 14 Ugandan health workers she had gathered.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)