pulled back its health workers from Sierra Leone's Ebola hot zone, the
Kailahun post, to the capital Freetown after one of their health
workers was infected.
"This was the responsible thing to do. The field team has been through
a traumatic time through this incident," Daniel Kertesz, WHO
Representative in Sierra Leone said in a statement.
"They are exhausted from many weeks of heroic work, helping patients
infected with Ebola. When you add a stressor like this, the risk of
accidents increases," he added.
WHO on Sunday said an international health worker deployed by WHO has
contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, marked the first time someone
working under the aegis of WHO has fallen ill with the disease.
Once the investigation has been completed and appropriate actions have
been taken, WHO will move a team back to Kailahun.
Also on Tuesday, the UN agency sent a team to the town near the border
with Guinea to do a review of the incident on the colleague who became
infected. The team will try to determine how the health worker became
infected, review the living and working environment of all the
workers, try to identify factors that increase risk of infection, and
address these issues.
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