Anderson Cooper highlighted many extraordinary people. However, the one that stood out the most is a female nursing college student in Liberia that has one more year to finish nursing school. Her father contracted Ebola and then her mother and sister and cousin did too.
Instead of crying and freaking out since she had been trained to deal with this, she tried to get her father first into a local hospital, then when her mother became ill her mother, and finally her sister and her cousin. However, none of them were admitted to any of the nearby hospitals to be treated. So, she took it upon herself to treat her family. By using black plastic bags on her feet with rain boots over that with stockings over her face and another plastic bag with long pants and long sleeve blouses and a black plastic bag over her head she treated her father, Mother and sister to health. However, her cousin died in hospital. So, she saved her closest relatives from death. She has become famous in Liberia for developing "Home Use" methods by using plastic bags and rain boots instead of expensive protective clothing and has been on TV demonstrating how she saved her family (with the exception of her young cousin) from death. here name is: Fawci Kekula. She is 22 years old and saved her father, sister and mother because she had the knowledge from 2 years of nursing school and the faith and determination to keep her family alive when there was no help to be found except her. So, she saved three lives at home there in Liberia.
She was on the Anderson
cooper Extraordinary people: Cnn Special tonight December 16th 2014
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