Las Vegas Sun

April 28, 2024

Juma Musa describes how he once opened a batch of ineffective chlorine powder that had expired a year earlier during an interview Aug. 10, 2015, at the government hospital in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone. In the background is a yellow chlorine disinfectant sprayer. "We were in a war zone and the chlorine was the only thing that was giving us courage to come closer to patients," Musa said.

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Juma Musa describes how he once opened a batch of ineffective chlorine powder that had expired a year earlier during an interview Aug. 10, 2015, at the government hospital in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone. In the background is a yellow chlorine disinfectant sprayer. "We were in a war zone and the chlorine was the only thing that was giving us courage to come closer to patients," Musa said.