Fourth Sierra Leonean doctor dies from Ebola

A fourth Sierra Leonean specialist, a lady, passed on Sunday in the wake of getting the feared Ebola infection, the nation's boss therapeutic officer told AFP.

Specialist Olive Buck, who was responsible for Lumley Government Hospital in the capital's west end, tried positive for Ebola on Tuesday and was admitted to the Connaught Hospital in focal Freetown.

"It's an alternate pitiful misfortune for the calling," Sierra Leone's boss therapeutic officer Brima Kargbo told AFP by phone. "The service of wellbeing is in profound despondency to miss an alternate dedicated Ebola contender."

Therapeutic sources said plans had been at a progressed stage to fly the debilitated specialist, who was in her initial sixties, out of the nation for further treatment.

Patients of the late specialist depicted her as "neighborly and happy".

"This is a huge blow. She was tremendously adored for her minding soul. I can hardly imagine how she had passed on," said 35-year-old Joko Sutton, one of her patients.

Buck is the first female specialist to bite the dust from Ebola in Sierra Leone. Three male specialists have succumbed to the tropical infection since July. By most accounts 50 medical attendants in the nation have additionally passed on from the illness.

The Ebola episode attacking west Africa has executed more than 2,400 individuals since it emitted not long ago, as indicated by the World Health Organization.