Ebola Comes to ELWA

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Ebola Comes to ELWA

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Deborah Eisenhut

Mar 4, 2015

ELWA Hospital is a small SIM mission hospital near Monrovia, Liberia. When did we first hear about the impending threat of Ebola? What did we do? How did we prepare? What happened? Come and hear the story of Ebola coming to ELWA.

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