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In June 2014 a Home Leone team helped refurbish a Sierra Leone hospital. Shortly after the staff were quarantined and 2 nurses sadly died. Once the quarantine period passed, the hospital was use as an ebola treatment centre.  Now it is fully restored as a primary health care hospital.

Interventions like Home Leone are a key factor in preventing and controlling the spread of Ebola. Due to the nature of Ebola being transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids its transmission was dramatically influenced by the overcrowded and acute living conditions of the slums in Sierra Leone. They are characterized by poor hygiene and sanitation systems, poor waste disposal mechanisms, and compromised drainage systems leading to spillages and blockages that affect the water supply, overcrowding and inadequate social amenities such as health centres. These factors result in the increased transmission of the Ebola virus.

An infrastructural intervention like Home Leone is a key measure in the control and prevention of the such viruses, providing a solution to these health and environmental conditions exacerbating the Ebola epidemic.

Home Leone is providing an infrastructural solution, building new low cost homes with sanitation and waste systems, training and education in living hygienically.