Winifred Bulus
The Scottish nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, who survived Ebola from Sierra Leone, has decided to return to Sierra Leone to raise funds for orphaned children who had lost their parents to the disease and for closure.
This was made known by a London based Nursing company called ‘Nursing in practice,’noted that
some of the children who would benefit from her visit are the street children amongst others. An estimated 12,000 children were orphaned in Sierra Leone by the epidemic.
“It would be ‘psychologically important for me to go back’ to Sierra Leone. That’s where things started for me and I’ve had a terrible couple of years since then.
So it would be good to go back and have things come full circle for me. It will be a little bit of closure, and I want to end it with something good, something positive.”
The nurse said her visit to the West African country would allow her gain closure. She was part of a British Health care volunteer team in 2014 that went to Sierra Leone to curtail the outbreak of the epidemic that caused about 4,000 lives. In the same year, she contracted the disease.
Pauline was treated in London and recovered but later had a relapses of the disease. She was declared seriously ill by the Royal Free Hospital in London where she received treatment in the isolation unit. She was later declared fully free from the disease.