Confronting this deadly battle firsthand
This powerful documentary confronts the key issues in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus, giving a firsthand view of its physical and emotional impact on whole families and on the medical staff treating them. With specially adapted cameras attached to their goggles, volunteers from Medecins Sans Fronti¨¨res - Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) working in the high risk zone of an Ebola Case Management Centre in Sierra Leone give viewers a very real sense of what it's like on the frontline.
Their pain and despair is all too clear when they have to separate parents from a sick child and then when that child loses their fight for life. But even in these desperately difficult circumstances there are moments of euphoria as patients who have been cured leave the centre. Exclusive footage also reveals the medical staff's frustrations at the lack of support from the international community and pharmaceutical companies in fighting the Ebola virus, which has been responsible for more than 5,000 deaths since the outbreak began.
Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.
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