World’s media have moved on but Ebola still wreaking havoc
Davy Adams of GOAL with health workers in Sierra Leone. Below: Nurse Isatu Mansary of one of GOAL’s Ebola Treatment Centres
There is an old media maxim that says: “News only happens where journalists are.” In other words, if no-one is on hand to report on a crisis, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, it might as well not be happening. For a while now, this has been true of the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
I spent four months in Sierra Leone, from November of last year until March of this, as part of my job with GOAL. I saw at first-hand many of the effects of Ebola; witnessed some of the human tragedies that lie behind the cold statistics. The memories of people I met, and their suffering, will remain with me always.
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