Ebola Survivor Who Was Named TIME’s 2014 Person Of The Years Dies In Childbirth stat : Essence

This week, Karwah — who lost both her parents to Ebola and survived the disease herself — died during childbirth, TIME reports. There were many brave people who geared up in 2014 to fight against the Ebola epidemic that took the lives of more than 11,000 people. Salome Karwah, who survived the deadly virus Ebola, died last week in childbirth. On Feb. 17, Karwah gave birth to her fourth child, Solomon, before she lapsed into convulsions. Amongst the medical aids that put on protective gear to ward off the highly contagious disease was nurse Salome Karwah.




Those who knew her for her tireless cheer in the MSF Ebola treatment clinic were devastated. Salome Karwah,who worked with Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres photographed for TIME's Person of the Year cover at an Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia, Liberia. But just because Karwah escaped Ebola, it didn't mean she was secure against the failures of Liberia's broken medical system. Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was not one of them. I have no words," says Ella Watson-Stryker, a MSF health promoter who worked with Karwah in Liberia and was also among the Ebola Fighters on the 2014 cover.


During the Ebola outbreak of 2014 in Liberia, Karwah contracted the disease and survived, although her parents, brother, uncles, aunts, niece, and cousin all died as a result of Ebola. In 2014, Salomé Karwah was named a Time magazine Person of the Year for her frontline work fighting Ebola in west Africa. Afterward, Karwah decided to dedicate her life to helping others, and got a job at a Médecins San Frontières/Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center, where she worked as a mental-health counselor. Karwah died the following day, but Manly believes that her sister may have survived the complications if she had received immediate treatment. But last week, Karwah died from childbirth complications in Liberia, after hospital staff initially refused to help her due to the stigma that still surrounds the disease, the Guardian reports.


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