A Windsor man has returned from Africa after providing medical help to patients infected with the Ebola virus.
Dr. Tim Jagatic spent much of the summer in Sierra Leone, caring for dozens of patients in one day. Now Jagatic is back in North America trying to bring awareness to the deadly disease.
“We were stretched to our limit. We were able to expand up to 100 beds," he says.
Jagatic is with Doctors without Borders – a group stationed last month in Sierra Leone. His team has built a secluded isolation ward for patients suffering from the disease.
“Within that facility we were able to maintain the strictest control with our sanitation team. They were going in there four to five times a day."
Since the outbreak began, the World Health Organization says there have been over 2,600 probable, suspected or confirmed cases of Ebola. Symptoms are similar to the flu or Malaria. The virus has already killed over 14,000 people.
"When you mix the highest level of virus load possible with people who are essentially inoculating themselves with the virus, then you're really going to have a high level of infection."
Jagatic says doctors took away medical lessons and they hope can help improve the mortality rate in the future. Jagatic says it's not known when he'll return to the disease stricken area.
