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A Sierra Leone #Ebola patient whose family sparked a nationwide hunt when they forcefully removed her from a treatment centre and took her to a traditional healer has died in an ambulance on the way to hospital, a health official said.
Fear and mistrust of health workers in Sierra Leone, where many have more faith in traditional medicine, are according to health offcials, hindering efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak which has killed more than 450 people in the country.
Amadu Sisi, a senior doctor at King Harman hospital in the capital Freetown, from which the patient was taken, said on Saturday that police found her in the house of a healer.
Her family refused to hand her over and a struggle ensued with police, who finally retrieved her and sent her to hospital, he said.
