NEWS: MSF fêtes '1000th Ebola survivor'

Dakar - Medical charity MSF, at the forefront of the fight against Ebola in west Africa, said Tuesday it had saved a 1 000th patient from the deadly epidemic.

The survivor, Kollie James is an 18-year-old Liberian, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) said.

"Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, MSF has admitted more than 4 500 patients to its care centres. Among these, more than 2 700 were confirmed as having Ebola," it said in a statement.

"Amidst all the loss and suffering, there are several stories of survival. Today, out of all the patients cared for in MSF's projects in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, we celebrate the one thousandth survivor," it said.

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