British Obstetrician Recounts 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak - Lessons For How To Cope With Current Crisis In Uganda Perhaps lessons can be learned on how to cope with the current Ugandan crisis from a British obstetrician’s account of what it was like to be a doctor on the front lines of an unfolding Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone in 2014 while struggling to save the lives of expectant mothers and their babies.