Approaching the town this morning, three families were seen digging graves outside their homes. Twice people ran despairingly toward vehicles, imploring help for the sick in their homes. An unfinished World Vision health clinic on a hill overlooking Salagle was converted into an isolation facility. She was sick for two days. By the time we brought her here, it was really too late.
Some people get sick and die the same day.
Apart from this place, there is nowhere else to go to get help around Salagle. Mukhtar has neither time nor energy to grieve. She starts back up the hill to the clinic to tend to her nephew, Aden Nuh. He has been taken off his IV, and Batulo carefully feeds him some more oral rehydration fluid. World Vision nurse Evelyn Luna cautions her to repeat this every few minutes.