'I've never seen anything like this in my lifetime': Nurse who worked on Ebola frontline in Africa now leading Manchester Nightingale's coronavirus fight

10.07.2020 - 13:12

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A nurse who worked on the frontline of the Ebola outbreak is now leading the fight against coronavirus at the Nightingale North West.

David Anderson, 51, has worked on UK aid responses around the world, including during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone in 2014.

Now David has joined the UK effort to tackle coronavirus as director of quality at the Nightingale North West in Manchester.

David has been seconded from his job as a humanitarian health advisor with the UK-Med charity to take on the role. "Ebola had a mortality rate of 80pc when I arrived in Sierra Leone and there were some horrendously dark days," he said. "I have had the privilege of working around the world in many different contexts with some special individuals and teams,

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'I've never seen anything like this in my lifetime': Nurse who worked on Ebola frontline in Africa now leading Manchester Nightingale's coronavirus fight

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