British Nurse heads back to Sierra Leone
British-born Ebola survivor says he is on his way to Sierra Leone to continue his mission in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus which continues to claim more lives in the Sub-region.
William Pooley, 29 (in center of photo), says: “I cannot sit here in the UK and watch the people of Sierra Leone die without doing nothing – I must go back to Sierra Leone to continue my work in helping those people affected by Ebola.”
In an interview at Lancaster House in London, where the British Foreign Office was organising the ‘Defeat Ebola in Sierra Leone” conference, Pooley says his mission in Sierra Leone will never be completed until Ebola is contained and eradicated.
Inside the conference itself where Pooley was asked to give an account of his experience in Sierra Leone as an Ebola survivor, the British nurse was unable to control his emotions as he burst into tears during his speech.
Visibly upset and consumed by his emotions, Pooley retold the pathetic case of a brother and sister, aged four and two, who he cared for in Sierra Leone.
He said ‘at all costs’ the international community must not allow what happened to them, be repeated one million times.
His emotional plea at the conference came as 34 NGOs joined forces to warn the international community they have just four weeks to stop the Ebola crisis ‘spiralling completely out of control’.
“I am coming to your embassy to get my visa next week and by mid this month I should be on my way to Sierra Leone,” says Pooley who’s been widely considered not only as a hero but a saviour for the people of Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Edward Mohamed Turay, was delighted meeting the British nurse and described him as a ‘great man’.
Pooley just came back from a life-saving mission to the United States where he gave blood to try to help a victim of the virus.
At the ‘Defeat Ebola Conference’, British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said Pooley’s body has considerable immune cells in the hope of helping to advance research into finding a vaccination against the disease.
William Pooley became the first Briton to contract the virus after working as a volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone.
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