More heartbreaking photos showing
the sorry state of Ebola victims in Liberia have surfaced online.
In one of these photos taken by photographer John Moore for Getty Images, you can see this corpse of a young lady, Nama Fambule.
The next photos you’ll be looking at below are those of her mother crying with
the children of the dead woman, her grandchildren crying beside her. Her sister
is wailing inconsolably knowing full well that her dead sister will be burnt to
ashes as is the procedure for Ebola victims. Even her husband weeps
inconsolably.
The family insists the lady did not die of Ebola but from a year-long protracted illness. Liberian health authorities are not taking chances because most grieving relatives have been known to lie about cause of death so that the corpse of their loved ones will escape being burnt.
The family insists the lady did not die of Ebola but from a year-long protracted illness. Liberian health authorities are not taking chances because most grieving relatives have been known to lie about cause of death so that the corpse of their loved ones will escape being burnt.
According to WHO, the death toll in
Liberia from the Ebola Virus outbreak has risen to 4,033. Do not forget that a
terrible civil war claimed the lives of Liberians for about two decades. Just
when the country was picking up its pieces, Ebola knock at their door to claim
even more lives. Let’s make this our business. #PrayForLiberia.
A woman crawls toward the body of
her sister as an Ebola burial team takes it away for cremation.
The dead woman was a
market vendor, who collapsed and died outside her home in Monrovia, Liberia,
while leaving to walk to a treatment center, according to her relatives. Above,
her sister is seen grieving on the ground following the burial team’s departure
The late woman’s mother, Sophia Doe
(right), and her young grand daughters weep as her daughter’s remains are
removed for cremation on Saturday.
In this image, her husband, Varney
Jonson, 46, is seen crying out in pain as crews – donning white overalls,
gloves and goggles – transport the body of his wife, Nama Fambule, to a
crematorium following a year-long illness that he insists was not
Ebola-related.
As the proper burial of loved ones
is so important in Liberian culture, the removal of infected bodies for
incineration is all the more traumatic for surviving family members. Many
relatives attempt to convince burial teams to leave the bodies behind.
burial team not to take away the body of Nama
Fambule for cremation”
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