He also moves fast on the medical front, experimenting with his own idea of treatment for Ebola patients.
Back in July this hospital, which was the main medical facility for the region, was closed after 10 of the staffers got sick with Ebola.
"We sent them to Monrovia," he says. Of the 10, only one survived.
When the hospital reopened in August, Logan at first tried to refer any suspected Ebola cases to Monrovia. Clinics in the capital had no room for them.
"Everywhere is filled, so I said to myself, 'Well then, as a doctor I have to do something to save some of the people's lives,' " Logan says.
So Logan set up a bare-bones Ebola isolation ward in a small building behind the hospital. He also started wondering whether any of the drugs in his pharmacy might work against the virus.
That's when he decided to try lamivudine, an antiviral medicine used to treat hepatitis B and HIV, on Ebola patients.
He also moves fast on the medical front, experimenting with his own idea of treatment for Ebola patients.
Back in July this hospital, which was the main medical facility for the region, was closed after 10 of the staffers got sick with Ebola.
"We sent them to Monrovia," he says. Of the 10, only one survived.
When the hospital reopened in August, Logan at first tried to refer any suspected Ebola cases to Monrovia. Clinics in the capital had no room for them.
"Everywhere is filled, so I said to myself, 'Well then, as a doctor I have to do something to save some of the people's lives,' " Logan says.
So Logan set up a bare-bones Ebola isolation ward in a small building behind the hospital. He also started wondering whether any of the drugs in his pharmacy might work against the virus.
That's when he decided to try lamivudine, an antiviral medicine used to treat hepatitis B and HIV, on Ebola patients.
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