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ebola's legacy

  • Aminata Conteh, 8, puts on a hospital gown before doctors remove fluid from her problematic right eye for testing at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Long after recovering from the largest Ebola outbreaks in history, survivors continue to experience debilitating complications including uvetis, an inflammation of the eye, leading to severe cataracts leaving the survivor with little to no sight in the affected eye. Doctors from Emory University Hospital have traveled to Sierra Leone to restore the sight of survivors suffering from severe cataracts in an effort to help them return to a more normal life.
  • Ophthalmic nurse Hannah Dorwie, 32, (center) measures the curvature of the eye of an Ebola survivor at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Long after recovering from the largest Ebola outbreaks in history, survivors continue to experience debilitating complications including uvetis, an inflammation of the eye, leading to severe cataracts leaving the survivor with little to no sight in the affected eye. Doctors from Emory University Hospital have traveled to Sierra Leone to restore the sight of survivors suffering from severe cataracts in an effort to help them return to a more normal life.
  • Aminata Conteh, 8, has blood drawn before her procedure at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Long after recovering from the largest Ebola outbreaks in history, survivors continue to experience debilitating complications including uvetis, an inflammation of the eye, leading to severe cataracts leaving the survivor with little to no sight in the affected eye. Doctors from Emory University Hospital have traveled to Sierra Leone to restore the sight of survivors suffering from severe cataracts in an effort to help them return to a more normal life.
  • Patients sit on a bench at the entrance of the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone
  • Aminata Conteh, 8, waits for her cataract surgery at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Aminata Conteh, 8, stands with nurse Hannah Dorwie in a makeshift operating room before doctors remove fluid from her problematic right eye for testing at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Dr. Moges Teshome begins to remove the cataract from the eye of an ebola survivor at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Aminata Conteh, 8, carefully wipes around the eye of a fellow ebola survivor at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Karen Daniels, a nurse from Samaritan's Purse, draws blood from an ebola survivor with the help of Dr. Ian Crozier at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Dr. Ian Crozier carries a sedated Aminata Conteh after her cataract surgery in a makeshift operating room at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Dr. Ian Crozier became ill while volunteering for the World Health Organization during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Months after recovering from the virus in the United States, Dr. Crozier began to experience intense pain and fading eye sight. After testing doctors found that the Ebola virus still remained in his eye despite testing negative in his blood.
  • Dr. Jessican Shantha examines the eye of Isatu Tholley, 12, the day after her cataract was removed at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Aminata Conteh, 8, (center) plays with her scarf as she and other ebola survivors wait to have bandages removed after their tapping procedure, where doctors remove fluid from the eye for testing, at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Ebola survivors have their bandages removed the day after their cataracts are removed at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Ebola survivors Aminata Conteh, 8, looks in the mirror as Isatu Tholley, 12 looks on at their guesthouse in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Koloneh Koroma, 6os, left with cataracts in both her eyes after recovering from the Ebola virus stands in the hallway of her guesthouse in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • Aminata Conteh, 8, plays with her sister's phone as she waits for doctors to examine her at the Kissy United Methodist Church Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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