Liberia: West Point Inferno - Eyewitness Accounts of Ebola Isolation Saga

Tolbert Nyenswah, Assistant Health Minister for Curative Services, gives the government's version of what happened in West Point at a news conference on Sunday...

"We did open something we describe as a holding unit; this is a concept that came about because of the outflow of patients in the community and so the commissioner noticed that people were buried secretly in the West Point Area. They were burying people behind a river called devil island and so since people were buried secretly, the commissioner thought it wise to come in at the Ministry of Health so that we discuss how to respond to the situation in the West Point Area, so that it didn't blow into a full-scale Ebola outbreak in that area.

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