In Layers of Gear, Offering Healing Hand to Ebola Patients in Liberia

Dr. Steven Hatch carried Blessing Gea, 9, into the high-risk ward. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times

nytimes.com - by Sheri Fink - October 16, 2014

SUAKOKO, Liberia — The first time Dr. Steven Hatch suited up in protective gear at an Ebola treatment center, he was confronted with the weight of his decision to volunteer here. A patient, sweating and heavily soiled, had collapsed in a corridor. “Literally every surface of his body was covered in billions of particles of Ebola,” he recalled.

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