Liberian Woman Ebola (Photo : Reuters)
Medical teams from China continue to help Mali local health workers to battle the widely dreaded Ebola virus which had taken thousands of lives and is holding many more at risk in West Africa.
Mali confirmed the country's first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Oct. 2014 and had later recorded six deaths out of the eight confirmed cases. Since then, the numbers of infected and dead had increased.
Fortunately, many countries, including China, had sent help to battle the spread of the virus. China's most recent aid include a 31-member medical team sent to Mali.
Since their arrival, the Chinese team had helped the Mali local medical workers fight the virus in the four corners of a Chinese-built hospital located in the country's capital, Bamako.
As the 23rd team sent to fight Ebola in West Africa, the Chinese medical team had given not only medical aid and training, but also hopes for the country's distraught residents of the country.
"When the first Ebola cases were confirmed in Mali, the situation was very serious, since we could not tell how bad it would get, and both the government and the international community paid a lot of attention to the development of the epidemic," the Chinese medical teams head Guo Liang explained.
According to Guo, the Chinese medical team had trained to prepare themselves for the task at hand, which entails converting the Mali hospital in Bamako as a dedicated Ebola treatment center should the epidemic worsens and had prepared themselves "to treat Ebola patients directly."
After the last Ebola-infected patient had recovered and returned home early in December, says most recent report from the BBC News, Mali has confirmed that they are now Ebola-free after recording 42 days without a new case of the disease.
The Ebola virus made news all over the world after it has been confirmed as an outbreak in 2014, taking about 8,468 lives and endangering 21,373 more all over the world, according to latest reports from the World Health Organization.
