Ebola: The Doctors' Story (2016) Movie Script
( music playing )
Man:
Push it in.
Just like that.
This way, and sit down
on the chair, okay?
There's that
healthy dose of fear.
Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim:
Sometimes you stumble
upon good news
and sometimes you stumble
upon bad news.
We are negative!
Tell them
that Ebola is real.
Woman on radio:
...take aim to fight
against Ebola.
It is not easy,
but I'm praying that God
will give them more ideas
to fight this disease
in our beloved countries
coming from...
( chatter )
Narrator:
It's been over 10 months
since the first victim
of this Ebola outbreak died,
known as patient zero.
Dr. Jay Achar:
We've got two teams
getting ready.
Put your mask on.
Narrator:
Ebola cases are
in the tens of thousands
and multiplying
every few weeks.
To date, there have been
over 3,000 reported deaths.
It's four bodies, yeah.
Two in each ambulance.
I can't get in
to confirm
because
it's too dangerous.
Woman:
Okay, they're coming.
We don't need
a stretcher.
- Man: For this one?
- Jay: Just for
the first one.
In the PPE,
you've got big boots on
and it's very hot
and slippery.
You don't want to have
an accident in there
because, obviously,
dead bodies
have very high levels
of the virus in all of
their body fluids,
so it's a risky place to be
to acquire Ebola.
- Man: Just wait.
- Woman: No, no, no, no!
You want only hygienists
or also body bags?
Two more
gray body bags
and a few more
hygienists.
- Okay. Okay.
- Just check that they're
organizing themselves, yeah?
Axelle Vandoornick:
It's all new here.
You can't basically
use your experience
that you had before
in a war context
or in a refugee camp
or in whatever emergencies,
natural disasters.
It's so different.
Okay, where is
the third ambulance?
Where did it stop?
We lost it on the way.
We only received
two ambulances.
Okay, sir, there are four
dead on arrival,
because there were too many
in the second ambulance.
So this is why you need
to put the patients
in three different
ambulances.
We have on the phone
every night people calling.
"We have 30 patients.
We have 50 patients."
For example,
three days ago,
we had one district
calling us.
They had 38 patients.
They called me yesterday,
they have 75.
Joshua Salia:
You mistake,
you are gone.
If we don't do this job,
then who will do it?
Jay:
I'll get some metoclopramide
in a syringe
if you want
to give it IM.
We just give him
a number.
It's clear to say
that it's a complete
disaster.
I think it's
beyond the scope
of one organization
just to say,
"Yeah, we'll cover this."
Even with MSF's experience
and resources,
this is too much.
No, wait for
the hygienist.
Excuse me?
It's three whole countries,
potentially,
and there's the prospect
of it going to other
countries.
( crickets chirping )
Narrator:
35-year-old
emergency response doctor
Javid Abdelmoneim
has been on previous
Doctors Without Borders
missions,
but this will be
his first time
on the Ebola front line.
Man on radio:
In Liberia, a French worker
who contracted Ebola
is still waiting
evacuation to Paris.
- Doctors Without Borders...
- Narrator: Dr. Javid
begins his
one-month deployment
in Kailahun
just as the first
Doctors Without Borders
international staff member
catches Ebola.
The risks of the job
are clear.
Javid:
I'm trying to tell myself
every few seconds,
"You don't want Ebola.
You don't want Ebola.
You don't want Ebola.
Be careful.
Be careful."
Javid:
Okey-dokey.
( chatter )
Thank you very much.
Haven't done anything yet
and we're disinfecting already.
That's good.
( people speaking
native language )
( laughter )
- Javid: You all right?
- So I could give you a hug now
'cause I'm clean.
Javid:
I don't want it.
( chuckles )
Yeah, let me
give you a shake.
Hi-- hi, Jay.
Nice to see you.
We were at uni together.
- So, yeah, definitely...
- Jay: He looks terrible
10 years on.
He hasn't aged well.
Just all the way in.
Narrator:
Those who are going
to be working
inside the high-risk zone
will have had
two days' training
in biohazard
safety procedures.
Javid: This is
the first time I'm going
into the high-risk zone.
I've practiced
putting this on once before,
but I think
this is the first time
that it's sort of...
hit home that...
I'm going in.
( chuckles )
Yes?
Narrator:
The personal protection
equipment, or PPE,
has been designed
to shield the wearer
from infection
by the Ebola virus.
It consists
of a protective bodysuit,
headgear, mask,
thick plastic apron,
multiple layers
of chemical-resistant gloves,
and a pair
of plastic goggles.
The doctors must complete
their rounds quickly
under all that equipment
as they endure temperatures
that can reach
up to 100 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Javid:
The nerves have started.
There's that healthy dose
of fear.
Narrator:
Javid will be wearing
a miniature camera
attached to his goggles
to provide a unique
doctor's-eye view
inside
the high-risk zone.
Javid:
It's sparse.
They're in a tent.
It's hot and humid.
They get given a blanket,
a set of clothes,
a toothbrush, toothpaste,
and a washing bowl
when they arrive,
and three meals a day.
But if they're
too weak to walk,
they're basically
just lying in bed alone.
People who are newly
really sick with it,
they're just flat,
you know?
Can't even talk.
John, hello.
My name's Javid.
I'm one of the doctors.
It's a feature
of the Ebola
to have
this complete fatigue,
so much so that they can
barely even open their eyes.
So they're either unconscious
or just super fatigued.
It's really quite nasty.
Javid:
Man:
Yeah.
Javid:
Of course so while
the risk is reduced,
there are still accidents
and there are still mishaps
and so forth.
Woman:
Javid:
Woman:
Okay, it's just me sweating.
Woman #2:
Sir, your test
was positive for Ebola.
Javid:
There are restrictions
to your sight with the goggles.
There are sharp edges
on wood.
There are metal posts.
You can trip and fall.
There are restrictions
to your movements
with everything
that you're wearing.
You go in with a buddy
and if they go,
"Oh, your goggles slipped,"
you have to walk out of there
regardless of what you're doing
straightaway.
Javid:
Dennis:
Javid:
Dennis:
Javid:
Narrator:
The riskiest part
of the process
is the careful removal
of the now infected
protective equipment
with chlorine washing
and spraying at every stage.
Narrator:
Even the camera
gets a chlorine bath.
Shake it, shake it,
shake it, shake it,
shake.
Javid:
So, I had to come out
early because...
my yellow overall
had slipped down
and my second pair
of gloves,
which is to my skin,
had slipped up,
so I only had literally
just the one layer of latex
instead of
the three layers
between me
and the outside world.
My blue glove had just
crawled up with sweat
and I had-- just had this area
and this area exposed.
And I noticed,
so I asked Dennis
and he was like,
"Yeah, we have to get out
right now.
It's just not safe."
So I've sort of
spoilt it for him.
We couldn't finish
what we went in to do.
Yeah, I'm super paranoid
and then I've just itched
my face
even though
I've washed my hands 400 times
coming out of there.
But I've just done this
and now I'm, like...
( imitates alarm )
This is
exactly what I thought
I wouldn't be like.
There, I did it again.
So, yeah, it does play
on your mind.
It does play on your mind.
It's funny.
I'm going to
wash again just in--
( chuckles )
( people speaking
native language )
Javid:
Robert and Steven.
Woman:
Narrator:
An ambulance arrives
at the admissions tent
containing 10 patients
crammed into one vehicle.
Javid:
It's almost like
shooting yourself in the foot
throwing them all in
in the ambulance
at the same time.
The handle is broken.
That's how it works.
You have to get as many people
here as possible
from wherever
in the country.
So I think
anybody that arrives
off that ambulance
is immediately
going to have to be admitted.
There's no way
to send them home and say,
"Oh, well, you're fine,"
'cause they've definitely had
really significant contact
in the ambulance alone,
and that's just sad.
This way, and sit down
on the chair, okay?
Be careful.
Narrator:
The patients that arrive
have either exhibited signs
of Ebola sickness
or have had direct contact
with someone who has.
The doctors' first task
is to identify
their symptoms.
Javid:
Diarrhea,
vomiting, cough.
Nothing else?
Did you have
any bleeding?
No? From the gum,
from your eye,
from there?
Anything from
flu-like illness,
sore throat,
runny nose, cough,
headache, fevers,
aches and pains
to upset stomach,
diarrhea, vomiting,
loss of appetite
to hemorrhagic symptoms,
bleeding from the eyes,
nose, anything else.
And there's no privacy,
there's no confidentiality
in there.
This is a tent
full of people
and they're just screaming
across the barrier
through a duckbill
in two languages.
Hang on.
Just wait.
Jay:
It seems to be
a family that's come in
in the second ambulance.
And it seems
that maybe the mother
is quite agitated,
so we're having to
give her something
to calm her down
because she's
quite a large woman
and it can be dangerous for us
to help her around
if she's--
if she's flailing around.
I mean, their father's--
he seems really nice
and he's looking after
his children
and he's encouraging them.
Narrator:
Whole families often arrive
at the treatment center
together.
Each individual
is given a case number
to track their progress.
This is
the Koroma family.
Does he have
any vomiting
or diarrhea?
Javid:
Ebola tears families apart
because it
turns your loved one
into a biohazard.
And, you know,
in this situation
where if one
of your family members
turns unwell,
you are the caregiver.
The first person will fall ill,
then the second,
then the third,
the fourth, the fifth.
And that's
how Ebola works.
Javid:
Well, we're
practically full today,
so we've had to say no
to an ambulance today.
And our survival rate
has gone up 1%,
so 41% survival.
Of course, this is
only looking at people here,
who make it here.
God knows how many are dying
out in the villages,
and even the vice president
acknowledged that today
or yesterday--
acknowledged that their--
their counts
are horribly underestimated
because we are
and they are
not counting people who die
outside of health facilities.
( chatter )
Jay:
So the family that arrived
about 48 hours ago
have had to be split up,
unfortunately.
So the mother
was quite sick
and I believe
she died yesterday.
And then the three children
with the two adults
have had to be split up
because of their blood tests.
So two of the children
and the father
have a blood test that confirms
the presence of Ebola.
Narrator:
The Koroma family
is headed by Sullay Koroma.
After his wife died,
his two sons
were discharged,
cleared of
the Ebola virus
while he and baby Warrah
remain in the treatment center
awaiting more
blood test results.
Dr. Arash Izadkhasti:
The baby was tested
and was negative.
The father,
who's wearing the blue PPE,
at the moment,
we're not sure
if he's just in the beginning
of his disease
or at the end stage.
We don't think
that he's very sick
because we can see that.
And the reason
we don't take away the baby
is because
they have been spending
three days together.
Anyway, he's not
very contagious,
he's not very viremic
at the moment.
So we think
if just he takes measures,
it's better to have the baby
together with the father.
( thunder rumbling )
( speaking native language )
Narrator:
Patients who are thought
to be carrying the Ebola virus
remain in
the suspect area
and have
a blood sample taken,
which is then tested.
The blood results
for Sullay Koroma
confirmed he had Ebola
and Warrah was also
now showing symptoms.
We've moved
away from calling it
a treatment center
because little treatment
is available.
So we call it now
a case management center.
The treatment is supportive,
not curative.
So every patient
on arrival receives
full malaria treatment,
a broad-spectrum
antibiotic treatment,
rehydration,
pain killers,
if they need antisickness,
antidiarrheals,
and, of course,
nutritional,
with the aim
to keep a patient alive
until their immune system
can kick in.
Woman:
It's good for you to eat.
Javid:
Get those antibodies out,
fight off the virus,
and survive.
So that's the aim.
Narrator:
Only around 30% of those
infected with Ebola survive.
Javid:
This is one milligram
per mil.
Narrator:
70% of those infected
will die,
most after just one week.
Javid: So, normally,
we would do the pupillary
reflexes with a torch.
No breathing,
no pulse.
And then you say,
"Rest in peace."
Do we know his name?
Man:
No, no, no, not given.
Nobody know him.
It's C-9.
Javid:
Many patients have
a very sudden death.
So sudden that they
literally are found
in the very position
in which they were
either sort of
casually sleeping, praying,
sitting just slumped
like this, upright.
I just went in there
to do a transfer.
We had a boy.
He was sitting
in his bed...
Okay, he's actually
passed away.
...folded over,
folded onto himself
just slumped
right forward.
Hello?
You know, you go in
and you find a cold body
like that.
It's how it's happening.
I don't even know
his age.
You know, you don't--
you don't--
these patients are not
John Smith, 37.
They're 616.
And that doesn't help you
get close to them emotionally
and maybe
that's purposeful.
Narrator:
Even so, many doctors
and nurses
working on
the Ebola front line
can't help taking
a personal interest
in the lives of the people
they treat.
Two weeks
into his deployment,
Dr. Javid has developed
just such a connection
with Warrah
and her father Sullay,
who, he was pleased to see,
were making an improvement.
Javid:
She's in
with her dad Sullay.
He's been moved
to the convalescent area
with Warrah,
which was nice.
So that means
that clinically
they're better.
How are you today?
Stronger?
Javid:
So he looks
a little bit--
a little bit
more energetic today,
which was nice.
And even Warrah
managed to give out
a tiny little scream
when I came near her,
and that's a good sign
of energy and life.
So that was nice.
Hopefully,
they'll just keep
getting better.
Hello!
Good afternoon.
Narrator:
When patients are over
the worst of the virus,
they are moved
to the convalescence tent
where they are monitored
and supported
by psychosocial
counselors
who get to know the patients
on a more personal level.
Idrissa has spent
a lot of time
with Warrah
and her father Sullay.
Woman:
Oh, no.
And the two brothers.
Idrissa:
Woman:
The girlie,
she can't stay here.
Idrissa:
Man:
Spray. Spray.
Javid:
It's really difficult to know
why Warrah's dad Sullay
had a sudden death.
Either it's something
to do with Ebola
or it's something to do
with the fact that
he was bedridden
and hadn't eaten
and possibly dehydrated
for days.
So, if it's to do
with the Ebola,
did it attack
the heart directly
and give him some sort
of fatal heart problem?
Or was it to do with the fact
that he was actually
bedridden for days
and dehydrated
and septic?
And that gives you
three big risk factors
for having a huge clot
in your lung.
Javid:
You've got to think
what could drop
a human being instantly
from being strong enough
to walk to the shower alone
and not strong enough
to come out and look
for help.
Either way, it's left Warrah
in a precarious situation.
And then it hits home
that this confirmed
Warrah's status
as an Ebola orphan.
( babbles )
( birds chirping )
( chatter )
Narrator:
The supportive treatment
the doctors are able to give
can improve patients'
chances of survival
from 30%
to around 45%.
- That's very good news
for the lucky ones.
- ( singing )
We are negative!
For now, and we will
go and tell them
that Ebola is real.
We are going to
discharge a huge number
of patients today.
( speaking native language )
Fatmata Swarray:
Today, they have cured
and we are going
to discharge them.
So I give them
a high five and a hug
and a handshake.
And so for me,
that's pretty cool.
Narrator:
Some of the happiest times
at the center
come when children
are cured
and are able
to be discharged.
It's since been estimated
that some 20,000 children
have been orphaned
as a result
of the outbreak.
Most of the children are here
without family members.
But they all come together
and play together.
They look themselves
as a family
and all of them
interact together.
We give them toys
and that can make them happy.
- Woman: The doctor
will bring you milk.
- ( crying )
Narrator:
When parents
have either died
or are too ill
to look after their babies,
round-the-clock care
is needed for them
inside the high-risk zone.
Fortunately for Warrah,
she and another baby,
Alpha,
have found themselves
a surrogate carer.
Javid:
Warrah was in
the suspect area alone
with another year-old child
called Alpha
and being looked after
by Abdul, who is a five,
six-year-old.
It's been astonishing
to see that, you know,
although we would have liked
for Abdul to maintain
his own safety
and not handle
the infants.
At the same time,
whenever one of them cried,
he would instinctively
go and pick them up
out of their crib
and play with them.
A perfectly human and natural
instinct and reaction,
surprising
in such a young one.
Nice to see.
And he miraculously,
after handling both of them,
still proved
to be negative.
Thankfully,
he was discharged
having not contracted Ebola
from them.
Narrator:
Most Ebola-infected babies
in the treatment center
are eventually matched up
with an adult caregiver,
usually another patient
who is convalescing
in the high-risk zone.
But no one could be found
for Alpha.
And in the days
that followed,
he took a turn
for the worse.
Javid:
I went to see Alpha.
The poor little Alpha,
he's all alone.
He looks like
he's in pain.
He looks scared.
You're bleeding.
Oi, oi, oi.
He's too weak to even cry
and he's bleeding
from one eye,
like, just, you know,
dribbling out.
Sorry, my boy.
I've just
come out of there.
I mean, I couldn't last
any longer.
I want to go back in
or get someone to go back in
to give him some painkiller
and a sedative
just-- if that
will quiet him.
If that will ease
his pain at the end
and ease his load.
Hey, baby.
- ( whimpers )
- Sorry.
- ( crying, coughing )
- Okay.
Sorry.
Since he's been here,
he's been alone in suspect.
He was alone being cared for
by a six-year-old Abdul,
if you remember,
with Warrah, so I don't know
where his family are.
We'll have to--
I could look in the book
and see if we have
any case contacts.
How you feeling?
( chatter )
It's sad news
to see Alpha died,
but it's expected.
It's why I gave him
the morphine
and the diazepam
yesterday.
So I can tell myself
that he wasn't in pain
at the end.
Fatmata, you might know,
Alpha, the boy,
- 604.
- Mm-hmm.
The little 11-month-old
who died yest--
- Yes, this morning.
- ...this morning
or last night.
- Did he have family?
- Fatmata: Yeah, he don't
have family.
Javid:
He doesn't have family?
Why, were they already dead?
Yeah, yeah,
the mother died,
the father died.
Well, it's almost better
that he died, isn't it?
You don't want
to say that, but...
Narrator:
Those who die are taken
to a purpose-built cemetery
several miles
out of town
in the dense jungle.
Today, baby Alpha
is due to be buried.
Javid:
Alpha died
a very painful death alone...
bleeding from his eyes.
He looked frightened
at the end.
You know
which one 604 is?
- What?
- 604, Alpha.
- 604.
- Do you know where?
John, 604?
- Javid: Oh, he's
going in now?
- Yeah.
Javid:
Yeah, just-- Alpha,
the little boy.
So this is his grave.
He may be remembered
by a number.
We do identify the bodies
with name, age, and origin,
but here, they've not
managed to do that,
so there's a huge number
of unmarked graves here.
Javid: I know for a fact,
having filled out the death
register last night,
number 300 and 301.
That means
there should be
301 bodies here.
This is what
300 fresh graves
look like.
It's a very unselective,
cruel disease, this.
And these people
can't be buried
in a normal
city cemetery
'cause they're
biohazards.
These bodies
are biohazards.
That's why they're
in the middle of a jungle
and they're just marked
by a number.
So...
anyway, I'll say a prayer
for Alpha a little bit.
I don't want
to talk about it.
I just don't want
to talk about it.
It's not nice.
A little boy.
I'll always say
what if, you know?
What if I had paid him
closer attention
whenever I went in?
What if I got another caregiver
to give him closer attention?
What if?
( chatter )
Javid:
We've passed a milestone
of 4,000 deaths today.
Almost feels
like the world's...
waking up to it.
And they only
wake up to it
when a few white people
are infected,
sorry to say,
but it's true.
It bugs me that
that's the nature
of the world.
It bugs me that
that's the nature
of the world.
Narrator:
Most patients who survive
and go on to be cured
are usually discharged
by day 14.
But Warrah has been
at the treatment center
for over three weeks now
and is still not clear
of the virus.
Javid:
We know here
that children
who are orphaned by Ebola
are having very small chance
of being adopted,
so her future
is precarious.
We can go in, give feed,
give medicines,
change her nappy
two, three times a day,
but you can't leave
a one-year-old alone.
So we've had to ask
a lady in the tent there
who's just
another patient herself
convalescing
to take up
that responsibility
for this orphan.
Her body is still warm,
still has fever.
- Yeah.
- Is she eating?
- Yeah.
- ( man speaking
native language ) Okay.
- Javid: Is she drinking?
- Yeah.
We've now got a tent
of two, four, six,
plus Warrah,
seven children
who are without adults
to look after them.
Narrator:
Placing Warrah with Kadija
was a relief
as having round-the-clock care
would greatly improve
her chances of survival.
However, the relief
was to be short-lived.
I went in to...
administer morphine
to a few patients
that we knew
were poorly.
Fatimata...
( continues indistinctly )
It looks like
she's not breathing.
Javid:
In one of the tents,
I found a dead lady.
And I had been
following her
and giving her
some painkillers
over the previous few days
and actually thought
she was getting better,
Fatimata.
And... she was dead
in a sleeping position.
Just looked
really quite peaceful
sort of sleeping like this.
And so I confirmed her death
and carried on with
what I was doing.
And on the way out, of course,
Kadija sits there
with Warrah,
so I stopped to say hello
as I usually do.
"Hey, how you doing?"
Javid:
Javid:
And I thanked her, in fact,
for staying behind
despite being "cured"--
staying behind to--
is the ambulance here?
Okay.
I thanked her to--
for staying behind
to look after Warrah
and just as she--
she said,
"Yeah, that's cool,
but I've stayed also
because of my sister,"
and she pointed
back towards the tent
from which I had just come.
And I said,
"What's your sister's name?"
Javid:
I just went, "Oh."
And for a minute
I thought I'm actually
just going to walk away
and just go, "Oh, okay"
and not tell her,
but I couldn't.
You have to tell her.
So I had to tell her
that I had just--
Fatimata just died.
- Bad condition.
- Yes, sir.
Javid:
No.
( sobbing )
Javid:
Sorry.
Oh, so Fatimata
was her sister.
Her mother and father
have already died of this.
So... unexpected.
And it just goes to show
I've been seeing Fatimata
for days,
I've been seeing Kadija
for days
and never knew
they were sisters.
And this keeps happening.
Sometimes you stumble
upon good news
and sometimes you stumble
upon bad news
like just happened now.
Javid:
Your father,
he passed on...
I've not seen
a reaction like that at all
since I've been here.
I don't know if the people
are just too traumatized
to process that
straightaway,
you know,
having entire members
of families die.
I don't know,
but do you know what?
For me, that was
a normal reaction
as opposed to
the absence of reactions
that I'm seeing a lot here.
I think
it's a healthy reaction,
to be honest.
Javid:
Today, Kadija
decided to go
and I think that's
completely understandable.
While her sister
was alive,
she was entirely prepared
to stay here for Warrah.
But today,
she's reflected over that
overnight, I think.
She's decided to go
and so we'll find
another caretaker for Warrah.
But she was smiling,
so it was nice,
it was nice.
MSF, thank you!
( both speaking
native language )
- Thank you!
- Yeah, bye-bye!
Narrator:
As Dr. Javid enters
his final week at the center,
one of the few patients
who has been there
longer than him
is Warrah, whose health
seems to be deteriorating.
Javid:
Hey, baby.
She's getting malnourished.
I've got Warrah here
with a temperature that
just hasn't gone away,
intermittently
or otherwise,
since the day she came in
on the 17th of September.
I thought she had
a chest infection
four days ago,
started her on antibiotics.
She's gotten
a lot better since--
eating more,
less diarrhea,
less breathless,
less cough.
But that fever
just isn't budging,
so you have to
just start thinking,
right, is there malaria
in the background
even though we've treated her
for malaria on admission?
Is there Lassa?
This is
an endemic area
for Lassa.
There's always
background levels
of Lassa fever
in this part
of the world.
It's probably the virus.
It just seems
to be taking so long
and the fact that she's now
on the sort of brink
- of acute malnutrition.
- Sorry, Warrah.
So she's going to get
this broad-spectrum antibiotic
as a course now,
and hopefully
that may treat
whatever was lingering
and stop her fever.
( chatter )
Narrator:
Every morning,
the medical teams
check the patients'
blood results,
which are posted
on the whiteboard.
And it can often be
a highly emotional occasion,
particularly
as it's Dr. Javid's
last day.
Javid:
I thought I could see
from a distance
that Warrah's blood tests
were back.
And I'm going to go
and look now
and I think they're
good ones, actually,
so let's go and look.
( laughing )
Ho ho ho ho!
- Check it out!
- What is it, what is it?
What is it? No, no!
( laughs )
- Yeah?
- Whoo!
- By .04.
- Whoo!
Shoot and score,
everyone.
Narrator:
The blood results
confirmed
Warrah was free
of Ebola.
So we've got a discharge
for Warrah, huh?
We've got a discharge
for Warrah.
Idrissa:
It's great news,
so we'll see her washed
and out here
and give her a cuddle
not in yellow.
And she'll probably still cry,
but that's good news.
She's out, 17.
Our strongest lady,
our youngest lady out.
Well, there you have it.
We've got quite a few here.
We've got Warrah
being hugged.
She's got
a big turnout, yeah.
She's got a big fan base
because she's been here
a while.
Okay.
And she's got
a sad story.
It's nice to have
a very happy ending.
She must be tough,
you know.
She's pulled through
and I really hope
that she stays well
into adulthood
and carries on.
( chatter )
( camera clicks )
( music playing )
Man:
Push it in.
Just like that.
This way, and sit down
on the chair, okay?
There's that
healthy dose of fear.
Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim:
Sometimes you stumble
upon good news
and sometimes you stumble
upon bad news.
We are negative!
Tell them
that Ebola is real.
Woman on radio:
...take aim to fight
against Ebola.
It is not easy,
but I'm praying that God
will give them more ideas
to fight this disease
in our beloved countries
coming from...
( chatter )
Narrator:
It's been over 10 months
since the first victim
of this Ebola outbreak died,
known as patient zero.
Dr. Jay Achar:
We've got two teams
getting ready.
Put your mask on.
Narrator:
Ebola cases are
in the tens of thousands
and multiplying
every few weeks.
To date, there have been
over 3,000 reported deaths.
It's four bodies, yeah.
Two in each ambulance.
I can't get in
to confirm
because
it's too dangerous.
Woman:
Okay, they're coming.
We don't need
a stretcher.
- Man: For this one?
- Jay: Just for
the first one.
In the PPE,
you've got big boots on
and it's very hot
and slippery.
You don't want to have
an accident in there
because, obviously,
dead bodies
have very high levels
of the virus in all of
their body fluids,
so it's a risky place to be
to acquire Ebola.
- Man: Just wait.
- Woman: No, no, no, no!
You want only hygienists
or also body bags?
Two more
gray body bags
and a few more
hygienists.
- Okay. Okay.
- Just check that they're
organizing themselves, yeah?
Axelle Vandoornick:
It's all new here.
You can't basically
use your experience
that you had before
in a war context
or in a refugee camp
or in whatever emergencies,
natural disasters.
It's so different.
Okay, where is
the third ambulance?
Where did it stop?
We lost it on the way.
We only received
two ambulances.
Okay, sir, there are four
dead on arrival,
because there were too many
in the second ambulance.
So this is why you need
to put the patients
in three different
ambulances.
We have on the phone
every night people calling.
"We have 30 patients.
We have 50 patients."
For example,
three days ago,
we had one district
calling us.
They had 38 patients.
They called me yesterday,
they have 75.
Joshua Salia:
You mistake,
you are gone.
If we don't do this job,
then who will do it?
Jay:
I'll get some metoclopramide
in a syringe
if you want
to give it IM.
We just give him
a number.
It's clear to say
that it's a complete
disaster.
I think it's
beyond the scope
of one organization
just to say,
"Yeah, we'll cover this."
Even with MSF's experience
and resources,
this is too much.
No, wait for
the hygienist.
Excuse me?
It's three whole countries,
potentially,
and there's the prospect
of it going to other
countries.
( crickets chirping )
Narrator:
35-year-old
emergency response doctor
Javid Abdelmoneim
has been on previous
Doctors Without Borders
missions,
but this will be
his first time
on the Ebola front line.
Man on radio:
In Liberia, a French worker
who contracted Ebola
is still waiting
evacuation to Paris.
- Doctors Without Borders...
- Narrator: Dr. Javid
begins his
one-month deployment
in Kailahun
just as the first
Doctors Without Borders
international staff member
catches Ebola.
The risks of the job
are clear.
Javid:
I'm trying to tell myself
every few seconds,
"You don't want Ebola.
You don't want Ebola.
You don't want Ebola.
Be careful.
Be careful."
Javid:
Okey-dokey.
( chatter )
Thank you very much.
Haven't done anything yet
and we're disinfecting already.
That's good.
( people speaking
native language )
( laughter )
- Javid: You all right?
- So I could give you a hug now
'cause I'm clean.
Javid:
I don't want it.
( chuckles )
Yeah, let me
give you a shake.
Hi-- hi, Jay.
Nice to see you.
We were at uni together.
- So, yeah, definitely...
- Jay: He looks terrible
10 years on.
He hasn't aged well.
Just all the way in.
Narrator:
Those who are going
to be working
inside the high-risk zone
will have had
two days' training
in biohazard
safety procedures.
Javid: This is
the first time I'm going
into the high-risk zone.
I've practiced
putting this on once before,
but I think
this is the first time
that it's sort of...
hit home that...
I'm going in.
( chuckles )
Yes?
Narrator:
The personal protection
equipment, or PPE,
has been designed
to shield the wearer
from infection
by the Ebola virus.
It consists
of a protective bodysuit,
headgear, mask,
thick plastic apron,
multiple layers
of chemical-resistant gloves,
and a pair
of plastic goggles.
The doctors must complete
their rounds quickly
under all that equipment
as they endure temperatures
that can reach
up to 100 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Javid:
The nerves have started.
There's that healthy dose
of fear.
Narrator:
Javid will be wearing
a miniature camera
attached to his goggles
to provide a unique
doctor's-eye view
inside
the high-risk zone.
Javid:
It's sparse.
They're in a tent.
It's hot and humid.
They get given a blanket,
a set of clothes,
a toothbrush, toothpaste,
and a washing bowl
when they arrive,
and three meals a day.
But if they're
too weak to walk,
they're basically
just lying in bed alone.
People who are newly
really sick with it,
they're just flat,
you know?
Can't even talk.
John, hello.
My name's Javid.
I'm one of the doctors.
It's a feature
of the Ebola
to have
this complete fatigue,
so much so that they can
barely even open their eyes.
So they're either unconscious
or just super fatigued.
It's really quite nasty.
Javid:
Man:
Yeah.
Javid:
Of course so while
the risk is reduced,
there are still accidents
and there are still mishaps
and so forth.
Woman:
Javid:
Woman:
Okay, it's just me sweating.
Woman #2:
Sir, your test
was positive for Ebola.
Javid:
There are restrictions
to your sight with the goggles.
There are sharp edges
on wood.
There are metal posts.
You can trip and fall.
There are restrictions
to your movements
with everything
that you're wearing.
You go in with a buddy
and if they go,
"Oh, your goggles slipped,"
you have to walk out of there
regardless of what you're doing
straightaway.
Javid:
Dennis:
Javid:
Dennis:
Javid:
Narrator:
The riskiest part
of the process
is the careful removal
of the now infected
protective equipment
with chlorine washing
and spraying at every stage.
Narrator:
Even the camera
gets a chlorine bath.
Shake it, shake it,
shake it, shake it,
shake.
Javid:
So, I had to come out
early because...
my yellow overall
had slipped down
and my second pair
of gloves,
which is to my skin,
had slipped up,
so I only had literally
just the one layer of latex
instead of
the three layers
between me
and the outside world.
My blue glove had just
crawled up with sweat
and I had-- just had this area
and this area exposed.
And I noticed,
so I asked Dennis
and he was like,
"Yeah, we have to get out
right now.
It's just not safe."
So I've sort of
spoilt it for him.
We couldn't finish
what we went in to do.
Yeah, I'm super paranoid
and then I've just itched
my face
even though
I've washed my hands 400 times
coming out of there.
But I've just done this
and now I'm, like...
( imitates alarm )
This is
exactly what I thought
I wouldn't be like.
There, I did it again.
So, yeah, it does play
on your mind.
It does play on your mind.
It's funny.
I'm going to
wash again just in--
( chuckles )
( people speaking
native language )
Javid:
Robert and Steven.
Woman:
Narrator:
An ambulance arrives
at the admissions tent
containing 10 patients
crammed into one vehicle.
Javid:
It's almost like
shooting yourself in the foot
throwing them all in
in the ambulance
at the same time.
The handle is broken.
That's how it works.
You have to get as many people
here as possible
from wherever
in the country.
So I think
anybody that arrives
off that ambulance
is immediately
going to have to be admitted.
There's no way
to send them home and say,
"Oh, well, you're fine,"
'cause they've definitely had
really significant contact
in the ambulance alone,
and that's just sad.
This way, and sit down
on the chair, okay?
Be careful.
Narrator:
The patients that arrive
have either exhibited signs
of Ebola sickness
or have had direct contact
with someone who has.
The doctors' first task
is to identify
their symptoms.
Javid:
Diarrhea,
vomiting, cough.
Nothing else?
Did you have
any bleeding?
No? From the gum,
from your eye,
from there?
Anything from
flu-like illness,
sore throat,
runny nose, cough,
headache, fevers,
aches and pains
to upset stomach,
diarrhea, vomiting,
loss of appetite
to hemorrhagic symptoms,
bleeding from the eyes,
nose, anything else.
And there's no privacy,
there's no confidentiality
in there.
This is a tent
full of people
and they're just screaming
across the barrier
through a duckbill
in two languages.
Hang on.
Just wait.
Jay:
It seems to be
a family that's come in
in the second ambulance.
And it seems
that maybe the mother
is quite agitated,
so we're having to
give her something
to calm her down
because she's
quite a large woman
and it can be dangerous for us
to help her around
if she's--
if she's flailing around.
I mean, their father's--
he seems really nice
and he's looking after
his children
and he's encouraging them.
Narrator:
Whole families often arrive
at the treatment center
together.
Each individual
is given a case number
to track their progress.
This is
the Koroma family.
Does he have
any vomiting
or diarrhea?
Javid:
Ebola tears families apart
because it
turns your loved one
into a biohazard.
And, you know,
in this situation
where if one
of your family members
turns unwell,
you are the caregiver.
The first person will fall ill,
then the second,
then the third,
the fourth, the fifth.
And that's
how Ebola works.
Javid:
Well, we're
practically full today,
so we've had to say no
to an ambulance today.
And our survival rate
has gone up 1%,
so 41% survival.
Of course, this is
only looking at people here,
who make it here.
God knows how many are dying
out in the villages,
and even the vice president
acknowledged that today
or yesterday--
acknowledged that their--
their counts
are horribly underestimated
because we are
and they are
not counting people who die
outside of health facilities.
( chatter )
Jay:
So the family that arrived
about 48 hours ago
have had to be split up,
unfortunately.
So the mother
was quite sick
and I believe
she died yesterday.
And then the three children
with the two adults
have had to be split up
because of their blood tests.
So two of the children
and the father
have a blood test that confirms
the presence of Ebola.
Narrator:
The Koroma family
is headed by Sullay Koroma.
After his wife died,
his two sons
were discharged,
cleared of
the Ebola virus
while he and baby Warrah
remain in the treatment center
awaiting more
blood test results.
Dr. Arash Izadkhasti:
The baby was tested
and was negative.
The father,
who's wearing the blue PPE,
at the moment,
we're not sure
if he's just in the beginning
of his disease
or at the end stage.
We don't think
that he's very sick
because we can see that.
And the reason
we don't take away the baby
is because
they have been spending
three days together.
Anyway, he's not
very contagious,
he's not very viremic
at the moment.
So we think
if just he takes measures,
it's better to have the baby
together with the father.
( thunder rumbling )
( speaking native language )
Narrator:
Patients who are thought
to be carrying the Ebola virus
remain in
the suspect area
and have
a blood sample taken,
which is then tested.
The blood results
for Sullay Koroma
confirmed he had Ebola
and Warrah was also
now showing symptoms.
We've moved
away from calling it
a treatment center
because little treatment
is available.
So we call it now
a case management center.
The treatment is supportive,
not curative.
So every patient
on arrival receives
full malaria treatment,
a broad-spectrum
antibiotic treatment,
rehydration,
pain killers,
if they need antisickness,
antidiarrheals,
and, of course,
nutritional,
with the aim
to keep a patient alive
until their immune system
can kick in.
Woman:
It's good for you to eat.
Javid:
Get those antibodies out,
fight off the virus,
and survive.
So that's the aim.
Narrator:
Only around 30% of those
infected with Ebola survive.
Javid:
This is one milligram
per mil.
Narrator:
70% of those infected
will die,
most after just one week.
Javid: So, normally,
we would do the pupillary
reflexes with a torch.
No breathing,
no pulse.
And then you say,
"Rest in peace."
Do we know his name?
Man:
No, no, no, not given.
Nobody know him.
It's C-9.
Javid:
Many patients have
a very sudden death.
So sudden that they
literally are found
in the very position
in which they were
either sort of
casually sleeping, praying,
sitting just slumped
like this, upright.
I just went in there
to do a transfer.
We had a boy.
He was sitting
in his bed...
Okay, he's actually
passed away.
...folded over,
folded onto himself
just slumped
right forward.
Hello?
You know, you go in
and you find a cold body
like that.
It's how it's happening.
I don't even know
his age.
You know, you don't--
you don't--
these patients are not
John Smith, 37.
They're 616.
And that doesn't help you
get close to them emotionally
and maybe
that's purposeful.
Narrator:
Even so, many doctors
and nurses
working on
the Ebola front line
can't help taking
a personal interest
in the lives of the people
they treat.
Two weeks
into his deployment,
Dr. Javid has developed
just such a connection
with Warrah
and her father Sullay,
who, he was pleased to see,
were making an improvement.
Javid:
She's in
with her dad Sullay.
He's been moved
to the convalescent area
with Warrah,
which was nice.
So that means
that clinically
they're better.
How are you today?
Stronger?
Javid:
So he looks
a little bit--
a little bit
more energetic today,
which was nice.
And even Warrah
managed to give out
a tiny little scream
when I came near her,
and that's a good sign
of energy and life.
So that was nice.
Hopefully,
they'll just keep
getting better.
Hello!
Good afternoon.
Narrator:
When patients are over
the worst of the virus,
they are moved
to the convalescence tent
where they are monitored
and supported
by psychosocial
counselors
who get to know the patients
on a more personal level.
Idrissa has spent
a lot of time
with Warrah
and her father Sullay.
Woman:
Oh, no.
And the two brothers.
Idrissa:
Woman:
The girlie,
she can't stay here.
Idrissa:
Man:
Spray. Spray.
Javid:
It's really difficult to know
why Warrah's dad Sullay
had a sudden death.
Either it's something
to do with Ebola
or it's something to do
with the fact that
he was bedridden
and hadn't eaten
and possibly dehydrated
for days.
So, if it's to do
with the Ebola,
did it attack
the heart directly
and give him some sort
of fatal heart problem?
Or was it to do with the fact
that he was actually
bedridden for days
and dehydrated
and septic?
And that gives you
three big risk factors
for having a huge clot
in your lung.
Javid:
You've got to think
what could drop
a human being instantly
from being strong enough
to walk to the shower alone
and not strong enough
to come out and look
for help.
Either way, it's left Warrah
in a precarious situation.
And then it hits home
that this confirmed
Warrah's status
as an Ebola orphan.
( babbles )
( birds chirping )
( chatter )
Narrator:
The supportive treatment
the doctors are able to give
can improve patients'
chances of survival
from 30%
to around 45%.
- That's very good news
for the lucky ones.
- ( singing )
We are negative!
For now, and we will
go and tell them
that Ebola is real.
We are going to
discharge a huge number
of patients today.
( speaking native language )
Fatmata Swarray:
Today, they have cured
and we are going
to discharge them.
So I give them
a high five and a hug
and a handshake.
And so for me,
that's pretty cool.
Narrator:
Some of the happiest times
at the center
come when children
are cured
and are able
to be discharged.
It's since been estimated
that some 20,000 children
have been orphaned
as a result
of the outbreak.
Most of the children are here
without family members.
But they all come together
and play together.
They look themselves
as a family
and all of them
interact together.
We give them toys
and that can make them happy.
- Woman: The doctor
will bring you milk.
- ( crying )
Narrator:
When parents
have either died
or are too ill
to look after their babies,
round-the-clock care
is needed for them
inside the high-risk zone.
Fortunately for Warrah,
she and another baby,
Alpha,
have found themselves
a surrogate carer.
Javid:
Warrah was in
the suspect area alone
with another year-old child
called Alpha
and being looked after
by Abdul, who is a five,
six-year-old.
It's been astonishing
to see that, you know,
although we would have liked
for Abdul to maintain
his own safety
and not handle
the infants.
At the same time,
whenever one of them cried,
he would instinctively
go and pick them up
out of their crib
and play with them.
A perfectly human and natural
instinct and reaction,
surprising
in such a young one.
Nice to see.
And he miraculously,
after handling both of them,
still proved
to be negative.
Thankfully,
he was discharged
having not contracted Ebola
from them.
Narrator:
Most Ebola-infected babies
in the treatment center
are eventually matched up
with an adult caregiver,
usually another patient
who is convalescing
in the high-risk zone.
But no one could be found
for Alpha.
And in the days
that followed,
he took a turn
for the worse.
Javid:
I went to see Alpha.
The poor little Alpha,
he's all alone.
He looks like
he's in pain.
He looks scared.
You're bleeding.
Oi, oi, oi.
He's too weak to even cry
and he's bleeding
from one eye,
like, just, you know,
dribbling out.
Sorry, my boy.
I've just
come out of there.
I mean, I couldn't last
any longer.
I want to go back in
or get someone to go back in
to give him some painkiller
and a sedative
just-- if that
will quiet him.
If that will ease
his pain at the end
and ease his load.
Hey, baby.
- ( whimpers )
- Sorry.
- ( crying, coughing )
- Okay.
Sorry.
Since he's been here,
he's been alone in suspect.
He was alone being cared for
by a six-year-old Abdul,
if you remember,
with Warrah, so I don't know
where his family are.
We'll have to--
I could look in the book
and see if we have
any case contacts.
How you feeling?
( chatter )
It's sad news
to see Alpha died,
but it's expected.
It's why I gave him
the morphine
and the diazepam
yesterday.
So I can tell myself
that he wasn't in pain
at the end.
Fatmata, you might know,
Alpha, the boy,
- 604.
- Mm-hmm.
The little 11-month-old
who died yest--
- Yes, this morning.
- ...this morning
or last night.
- Did he have family?
- Fatmata: Yeah, he don't
have family.
Javid:
He doesn't have family?
Why, were they already dead?
Yeah, yeah,
the mother died,
the father died.
Well, it's almost better
that he died, isn't it?
You don't want
to say that, but...
Narrator:
Those who die are taken
to a purpose-built cemetery
several miles
out of town
in the dense jungle.
Today, baby Alpha
is due to be buried.
Javid:
Alpha died
a very painful death alone...
bleeding from his eyes.
He looked frightened
at the end.
You know
which one 604 is?
- What?
- 604, Alpha.
- 604.
- Do you know where?
John, 604?
- Javid: Oh, he's
going in now?
- Yeah.
Javid:
Yeah, just-- Alpha,
the little boy.
So this is his grave.
He may be remembered
by a number.
We do identify the bodies
with name, age, and origin,
but here, they've not
managed to do that,
so there's a huge number
of unmarked graves here.
Javid: I know for a fact,
having filled out the death
register last night,
number 300 and 301.
That means
there should be
301 bodies here.
This is what
300 fresh graves
look like.
It's a very unselective,
cruel disease, this.
And these people
can't be buried
in a normal
city cemetery
'cause they're
biohazards.
These bodies
are biohazards.
That's why they're
in the middle of a jungle
and they're just marked
by a number.
So...
anyway, I'll say a prayer
for Alpha a little bit.
I don't want
to talk about it.
I just don't want
to talk about it.
It's not nice.
A little boy.
I'll always say
what if, you know?
What if I had paid him
closer attention
whenever I went in?
What if I got another caregiver
to give him closer attention?
What if?
( chatter )
Javid:
We've passed a milestone
of 4,000 deaths today.
Almost feels
like the world's...
waking up to it.
And they only
wake up to it
when a few white people
are infected,
sorry to say,
but it's true.
It bugs me that
that's the nature
of the world.
It bugs me that
that's the nature
of the world.
Narrator:
Most patients who survive
and go on to be cured
are usually discharged
by day 14.
But Warrah has been
at the treatment center
for over three weeks now
and is still not clear
of the virus.
Javid:
We know here
that children
who are orphaned by Ebola
are having very small chance
of being adopted,
so her future
is precarious.
We can go in, give feed,
give medicines,
change her nappy
two, three times a day,
but you can't leave
a one-year-old alone.
So we've had to ask
a lady in the tent there
who's just
another patient herself
convalescing
to take up
that responsibility
for this orphan.
Her body is still warm,
still has fever.
- Yeah.
- Is she eating?
- Yeah.
- ( man speaking
native language ) Okay.
- Javid: Is she drinking?
- Yeah.
We've now got a tent
of two, four, six,
plus Warrah,
seven children
who are without adults
to look after them.
Narrator:
Placing Warrah with Kadija
was a relief
as having round-the-clock care
would greatly improve
her chances of survival.
However, the relief
was to be short-lived.
I went in to...
administer morphine
to a few patients
that we knew
were poorly.
Fatimata...
( continues indistinctly )
It looks like
she's not breathing.
Javid:
In one of the tents,
I found a dead lady.
And I had been
following her
and giving her
some painkillers
over the previous few days
and actually thought
she was getting better,
Fatimata.
And... she was dead
in a sleeping position.
Just looked
really quite peaceful
sort of sleeping like this.
And so I confirmed her death
and carried on with
what I was doing.
And on the way out, of course,
Kadija sits there
with Warrah,
so I stopped to say hello
as I usually do.
"Hey, how you doing?"
Javid:
Javid:
And I thanked her, in fact,
for staying behind
despite being "cured"--
staying behind to--
is the ambulance here?
Okay.
I thanked her to--
for staying behind
to look after Warrah
and just as she--
she said,
"Yeah, that's cool,
but I've stayed also
because of my sister,"
and she pointed
back towards the tent
from which I had just come.
And I said,
"What's your sister's name?"
Javid:
I just went, "Oh."
And for a minute
I thought I'm actually
just going to walk away
and just go, "Oh, okay"
and not tell her,
but I couldn't.
You have to tell her.
So I had to tell her
that I had just--
Fatimata just died.
- Bad condition.
- Yes, sir.
Javid:
No.
( sobbing )
Javid:
Sorry.
Oh, so Fatimata
was her sister.
Her mother and father
have already died of this.
So... unexpected.
And it just goes to show
I've been seeing Fatimata
for days,
I've been seeing Kadija
for days
and never knew
they were sisters.
And this keeps happening.
Sometimes you stumble
upon good news
and sometimes you stumble
upon bad news
like just happened now.
Javid:
Your father,
he passed on...
I've not seen
a reaction like that at all
since I've been here.
I don't know if the people
are just too traumatized
to process that
straightaway,
you know,
having entire members
of families die.
I don't know,
but do you know what?
For me, that was
a normal reaction
as opposed to
the absence of reactions
that I'm seeing a lot here.
I think
it's a healthy reaction,
to be honest.
Javid:
Today, Kadija
decided to go
and I think that's
completely understandable.
While her sister
was alive,
she was entirely prepared
to stay here for Warrah.
But today,
she's reflected over that
overnight, I think.
She's decided to go
and so we'll find
another caretaker for Warrah.
But she was smiling,
so it was nice,
it was nice.
MSF, thank you!
( both speaking
native language )
- Thank you!
- Yeah, bye-bye!
Narrator:
As Dr. Javid enters
his final week at the center,
one of the few patients
who has been there
longer than him
is Warrah, whose health
seems to be deteriorating.
Javid:
Hey, baby.
She's getting malnourished.
I've got Warrah here
with a temperature that
just hasn't gone away,
intermittently
or otherwise,
since the day she came in
on the 17th of September.
I thought she had
a chest infection
four days ago,
started her on antibiotics.
She's gotten
a lot better since--
eating more,
less diarrhea,
less breathless,
less cough.
But that fever
just isn't budging,
so you have to
just start thinking,
right, is there malaria
in the background
even though we've treated her
for malaria on admission?
Is there Lassa?
This is
an endemic area
for Lassa.
There's always
background levels
of Lassa fever
in this part
of the world.
It's probably the virus.
It just seems
to be taking so long
and the fact that she's now
on the sort of brink
- of acute malnutrition.
- Sorry, Warrah.
So she's going to get
this broad-spectrum antibiotic
as a course now,
and hopefully
that may treat
whatever was lingering
and stop her fever.
( chatter )
Narrator:
Every morning,
the medical teams
check the patients'
blood results,
which are posted
on the whiteboard.
And it can often be
a highly emotional occasion,
particularly
as it's Dr. Javid's
last day.
Javid:
I thought I could see
from a distance
that Warrah's blood tests
were back.
And I'm going to go
and look now
and I think they're
good ones, actually,
so let's go and look.
( laughing )
Ho ho ho ho!
- Check it out!
- What is it, what is it?
What is it? No, no!
( laughs )
- Yeah?
- Whoo!
- By .04.
- Whoo!
Shoot and score,
everyone.
Narrator:
The blood results
confirmed
Warrah was free
of Ebola.
So we've got a discharge
for Warrah, huh?
We've got a discharge
for Warrah.
Idrissa:
It's great news,
so we'll see her washed
and out here
and give her a cuddle
not in yellow.
And she'll probably still cry,
but that's good news.
She's out, 17.
Our strongest lady,
our youngest lady out.
Well, there you have it.
We've got quite a few here.
We've got Warrah
being hugged.
She's got
a big turnout, yeah.
She's got a big fan base
because she's been here
a while.
Okay.
And she's got
a sad story.
It's nice to have
a very happy ending.
She must be tough,
you know.
She's pulled through
and I really hope
that she stays well
into adulthood
and carries on.
( chatter )
( camera clicks )
( music playing )