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Aid Volunteers Mourning the Death of Dedicated Nurse “Lady Rose”
Neighbours Without Borders, a US-based non-profit organization, is mourning the death of the 59-year-old head nurse Rosemary Bulimpikya on Dec. 4.
She had worked in a remote Ugandan hospital so poor that families there slept on floor mats with their sick children and health care workers had no masks or gloves to guard against infectious disease.
The outbreak so far has claimed 35 lives, including those of a doctor and three nurses, and sickened 124 others.
"People are scared of Ebola, and rightfully so," said Angela Aquila-Tickler, a Petaluma hospice nurse who met Lady Rose in 2004. "There's nothing to treat it, or slow it down. You either survive it or you don't."
Aquila-Tickler was visiting the place as a member of Neighbors Without Borders, a grassroots nonprofit organization formed by three of her friends who had been volunteering in Uganda on their summer vacations since 2001. They all shared the same humanitarian ideals, and with their group they hoped to carry out the freelance export of good will, reports San Francisco Chronicle.
The world is just beginning to learn about the Ebola outbreak in Bundibugyo (pronounced Boondi booge joe). Called Bundi for short by the English-speaking population, it's the shire town of an impoverished agricultural district in western Uganda, isolated by a spectacularly beautiful mountain range, and reachable by an 11-hour bus ride, over dirt roads, from the capital city
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