Audio ITW with Florence Baginyo, 42, an accountant at Mongbwalu General Hospital, who was discharged after recovering from Ebola disease and left the Ebola Treatment Center at the General Hospital in Mongbwalu, Ituri Province, DR Congo.

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So I work here at the hospital,

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I'm the accountant.

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My little sister, who was sick, called to say she was feeling very ill.

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I hopped on my motorcycle and arrived right away.

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I found her on the floor, vomiting.

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I asked her, “Can I take you to the hospital?”

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At first, she refused outright: “No, people die there.”

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I said, “I’m going back to my work. When you’re ready, call me.”

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And that’s when she said, “No, big sister, don’t abandon me—take me to the hospital.”

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We arrived on the 5th. On the 6th, my little sister died.

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On Sunday, the 7th, the director of nursing [at the hospital] called me.

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She’d been bedridden at home for almost a week, very sick.

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We thought she was just resting - taking a break from her shift work.

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She called me to say she was sick. Could I send an ambulance?

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I contacted the logistics team. We headed to her house to pick up the nurse.

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That same day, we arrived around 9 a.m. She died at 7 p.m.

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So we buried two bodies on Monday, the 8th.

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I rested on the 8th, the 9th, and the 10th, then I got sick.

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I started having strange symptoms: body aches and felt weakness.

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So from the 10th until today, I have been in the hospital. The test came back positive.

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Interviewer:
And now, two negative tests?

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Florence
Yes, two negative test results.