Offering General Pediatric Care During the Hard Times of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak: Looking Back at How Many Came and How Well They Fared at a Médecins Sans Frontières Referral Hospital in Rural Sierra Leone
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Hermans, VZachariah, R
Woldeyohannes, D
Saffa, G
Kamara, D
Ortuno-Gutierrez, N
Kizito, W
Manzi, M
Alders, P
Maikere, J
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2017-01-25Submitted date
2017-02-27
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BMC PediatricsAbstract
In Bo district, rural Sierra Leone, we assessed the burden of the 2014 Ebola outbreak on under-five consultations at a primary health center and the quality of care for under-15 children at a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) referral hospital.Publisher
BioMed CentralPubMed ID
28122533Language
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1471-2431ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1186/s12887-017-0786-z
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