The unseen toll of Ebola: lifting up frontline workers, not just headlines
Amid a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the piece argues that public attention and aid often spotlight Western patients while local frontline health workers bear the heaviest burdens with limited resources. The author, an infectious-disease physician who cared for patients in Sierra Leone in 2014 and later faced a suspected Ebola case in the U.S., describes the isolation and trauma of returning home and urges sustained, equitable investment, protection, and mental-health support for healthcare workers worldwide, not just during crises.
