MONROVIA --  Surviving Ebola is only part of the story. Many patients experience "post-Ebola" symptoms - joint pain, dizziness, blurred vision, inability to concentrate, headaches. The Ebola Survivors Clinic, opened recently at the Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, not only offers treatment, support and training for Ebola survivors, but also helps health-care workers better understand this disease.

             A Liberian doctor, Moses Soka, runs the Ebola Survivors Clinic that opened recently at the Redemption        hospital  in  Monrovia  WHO/C. Bailey

The line around Redemption Hospital in Monrovia was already stretching around the street corner when Dr Moses Soka arrived. The Ebola Survivors' Clinic had only been open a week, but word had spread and patients were beginning to come in numbers, patients of all ages and from across the city.

This is a new chapter in the Ebola story for Dr Moses. At the height of the epidemic, Dr Moses, a young Liberian doctor, took on one of the toughest jobs in the country. He was made the clinical director of the Ministry of Defence Ebola treatment centre (ETC) in Monrovia, where he worked through the darkest days of the epidemic.

Eventually patient numbers began to dwindle and the tide turned toward zero cases. However, it became apparent that the effects of Ebola do not end when the infection is cleared....

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