Meet 22-Year-Old Nursing Student Who Single-Handedly Saved Her Family From Ebola (PHOTOS)
Category: World News
By Dr. Sinclair Grey III
We’ve heard so much about the Ebola virus within the last few weeks. It’s been covered nationally as well as internationally. Without a doubt, this virus has caused panic within the health community. With so much negativity on the news, it’s good to hear about someone doing something positive and courageous.
SLIDESHOW: Fatu Kekula’s Inspiring Story In PHOTOS
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By Dr. Sinclair Grey III
We’ve heard so much about the Ebola virus within the last few weeks. It’s been covered nationally as well as internationally. Without a doubt, this virus has caused panic within the health community. With so much negativity on the news, it’s good to hear about someone doing something positive and courageous.
In a report on CNN, 22-year-old nursing student Fatu Kekula
(pictured) has done something remarkable. She single-handedly took care
of her father, mother, sister, and cousin who were diagnosed with Ebola.
She fed them, cleaned them, and administered their medications. Fatu is
without question a hero. Unfortunately, her cousin Alfred didn’t
recover.
Despite the dangerous conditions she faced, media outlets report that
Fatu stayed healthy, which is noteworthy considering that more than 300
health care workers have become infected with Ebola, and she didn’t
even have the protection equipment that medical professionals use in
Ebola treatment units — white space suits and goggles. Instead Fatu,
who’s in her final year of nursing school, invented her own equipment
named the “trash bag method.” International aid workers are now teaching
her method to other West Africans who can’t get into hospitals and
don’t have protective gear of their own.
Fatu definitely took precaution. Every day, she would put trash bags
over her socks. She would also put on rubber boots and trash bags over
the boots. She reportedly wrapped her hair in a pair of stockings and
then added a trash bag on top of it. Next she donned a raincoat and four
pairs of gloves on each hand, followed by a mask.
Fatu said she took her family to numerous hospitals but was turned
away because of overcrowding. That’s when she took the initiative to do
what she needed to do. Fatu’s father Moses, 52, said of his daughter
he’s “…very, very proud. She saved my life through the almighty God.”
The proud dad is working to find a scholarship for his “(s)hero”
daughter, so that she can finish her final year of nursing school. He
has no doubt that she will go on to save many more people during her
life. “I’m sure she’ll be a great giant of Liberia,” he said.
Read Kekula’s inspiring story at CNN.
SLIDESHOW: Fatu Kekula’s Inspiring Story In PHOTOS
Dr. Sinclair Grey III is an inspirational speaker, motivator,
author, life coach, and host of The Sinclair Grey Show heard on Monday’s
at 2pm on WAEC Love 860am (iHeart Radio and Tune In). Contact him at
drgrey@sinclairgrey.org or on Twitter@drsinclairgrey. Culled from
Naturally Moi.
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