EBOLA

In 2014, the Ebola epidemic hit Sierra Leone leaving thousands of deaths behind. This crisis started in the rural area or the provinces and came down to the capital city Freetown. This devastated the country to the point of having houses quarantined because an entire family or a whole yard was infected with the Ebola virus disease. Instead of graves, trenches were built to bury the dead (Friden, & Damon, 2015).

In Sierra Leone, the outbreak began slowly and silently, but gradually building up to a burst of cases.. Cases then increased dramatically. WHO revealed that the country’s first case was a woman who was a guest at the home of her sick family member in Guinea A neighboring country. She travelled back to her home in Sierra Leone and died there shortly after her return.. However, that death was neither investigated nor reported at the time.