Ebola: The Doctors' Story (TV Movie 2016)

Ebola: The Doctors’ Story: Directed by Steven Grandison. With Sophie Okonedo, Javid Abdelmoneim, Jay Achar, Joshua Salia. Ebola: The Doctors’ Story follows Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim a British emergency response doctor as he spends a month inside a Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center in Kalilahun, Sierra Leone. He serves as the epidemic escalates in the fall of 2014.

“Before the Outbreaks, while there was only some cases, combined CDC, WHO, UA (African Union) Teams as Initial Contact Teams wearing u0026quot;street clothesu0026quot; no protection to scare the locals, a clipboard forms pens pencils interviewed locals, they would get infected and die.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWe arrived as a U.S. Military Armed Initial Survey Team working with the CDC not for as not subordinate to the CDC. Our Mission Physical Measurements of the spread, how spread, lethality. We wore full Total Agent Protective Suits (u0026quot;spacesuitsu0026quot;) with Rebreathers, at the very least instead of rebreathers a filter worn on belt on back with nose connected to back of hood to respirator strapped to face.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere was a conflict between what the CDC Recommended that Nationu0026#39;s Government believed that the CDC Recommendation was a Requirement, we disagreed with the CDC and recommended more protection, as NOT the CDCu0026#39;s Face Shields but Sealed Goggles, not the CDCu0026#39;s surgical Masks but full N100 masks as a minimum, not scrubs and apron but what we later called u0026quot;duck suitsu0026quot; made from yellow rubber rainsuits, rubber boots, three layers of gloves not the CDCu0026#39;s surgical gloves. What you see in this Documentary is the later manufactured Duck Suits, and still those Nations pink N100 Filter paper Protective Masks as the pink duck beak. The first generation hoods were made from plastic white trash bags. The rubber boots were gotten locally usually from farming or gardening stores. Not shown or not used for some reason is our required use of vinyl tape to seal the gloves to the cuffs, the boots to the bottom of pants legs, at first we used vinyl tape to seal the pink N100 masks to the hood and later used blue paper surgical tape. Because of the previous CDC recommendations before we got there, 50 percent of that Nationu0026#39;s Medical Professionals got infected and would die, most got infected thru their eyes as the CDCu0026#39;s Face Shields failed to protect, the first symptom was the white portion of their eyes turned red then started to bleed they were blind and their brains had been infected via the optic nerve.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eUsing Staplex Air Samplers we found out that a patientu0026#39;s cough, projected a cloud 10 feet, the cloud 10 feet in diameter, stayed in air 6 to 10 minutes, and traveled down wind 50 feet to 100 feet depending on air speed. The unfortunate problem was that Nationu0026#39;s Medical Professionals usually took their breaks and ate meals downwind in the path of those patients clouds, so we had them move to the other side of the compound.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e24/7 our incinerator was going, as hotter than the Sun turned bodies into a few grams of ashes, a bodyu0026#39;s ashes could fit into a 2 inch x 2 inch cardboard box that we sealed with scotch packing tape and taped an I.D. on the outside if they had an I.D.. This pissed off the locals as their ritual was to wash the body before burial, all their Relatives would hug, kiss, and caress the body, we put a stop to that, even with threats of U.S. Military Force. Burning a body meant you just sent them to Hell, another Nationu0026#39;s Military that was also doing an Armed Quarantine as that Nationu0026#39;s Military armed attempted to escape that Nation with their families, had to force back the crowds trying to stop Us incinerating the bodies.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ewe started attempting to use experimental treatments as antivirus Amantadine, rimantadine, pieconaril, occular fomvirsen, tamiflu, zanamivir and remdesivir, while at the same time attempting stop secondary bacterial infections, malaria, meningitis, cholera, typhoid (the Nation we were at had lots of problems)..u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSomebody spread the rumor that we had u0026quot;The Cureu0026quot;, the other Nationu0026#39;s Armed Military ended up using Deadly Force to stop Looters from over running Us, we ended up loading those bodies into our incinerator.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eUpon leaving everything went into the incinerator, the ashes put into a 55 gallon drum that we took with Us after sterilizing the outside, this would be sent to a fixed incinerator facility at U.S. to be incinerated. All our vehicles were left at that Nation after being sterilized with concentrated hypochlorite acid. The only things that we left with was the adult diapers we wore, a paper Tyvek suit and booties.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e31 days Isolation Quarantine was next.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat I cannot understand is why they, the CDC, UN World Health Organization, UA (African Union) learned nothing from Us as far as the SARS CoVid2 Virus Pandemic.”