Ebola warnings are non-existent

Because of the growing ebola epidemic, a week ago I was evacuated from Sierra Leone, where I had been working with VSO International Citizen Service. I had spent three months living with a family and working at a skills centre for teenage mothers.

The acknowledgment of ebola there is minimal. I received weekly updates from VSO on the situation, but what local people are told about the virus and ways of prevent it spreading is pretty much non-existent. There were just a couple of posters in the local hospital. This was extremely frustrating.

Before leaving the country, I had my temperature taken and was told to complete a small questionnaire. On arrival at Heathrow, I expected to be questioned or at least told to wash my hands with chlorine, yet there was not a health official or the word ‘ebola’ in sight.

If this virus is to be contained, the UK Government needs to put some immediate health checks and clearer information in place at every port and available entry point into this country.

C. Woellwarth, Farnham, Surrey