Tuesday was a happy day in Kenema’s Ebola treatment center. Sierra Leonean Mamie Yongai was released to go home after defeating the virus.

Mamie Yongai’s husband and most people from the same house in Freetown died of the Ebola virus disease. Mamie came to the Red Cross Ebola treatment center in Kenema together with his sister-in-law.

Red Cross gave Mamie food, money, kitchen utilities, oil and a matress. She was also given new clothes because the old clothes of Ebola patients have to be burnt in order to avoid spreading the disease. However, most important was the certificate given by the treatment center, proving that Mamie has been cured.

Mamie Yongai returns to Freetown where her children are waiting for her.

Read more (in Finnish):

http://www.punainenristi.fi/uutiset/20141113/ebolasta-voi-selviytya