World Health Organization (WHO), officials recently found scores of bodies died of Ebola piled up in a hospital earlier this week at a region called KONO in Sierra Leone .
'They uncovered a grim scene,' the UN health agency said in statement after making the discovery in the remote diamond-mining region of Kono. 'In 11 days, two teams buried 87 bodies.'
Among the dead were a nurse, ambulance driver and janitor who had previously been drafted in to remove bodies as they piled up, they added
'Our team met heroic doctors and nurses at their wits end, exhausted burial teams and lab techs, all doing the best they could, but they simply ran out of resources and were overrun with gravely ill people,' said Dr. Olu Olushayo, an official in WHO's response Ebola team.
Because bodies are a frightening source of contagion as the devastating virus carries its heaviest load right after death the entire community has been locked down.
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