{"id":4208,"date":"2015-09-03T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T13:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2015-09-03T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T13:58:31","slug":"caring-for-the-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/2015\/09\/caring-for-the-caregivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for the Caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tools-txt\"><strong>Original article from:<\/strong><em> Boston Globe <\/em>posted on September 2, 2015. by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey<\/p>\n<div class=\"text section\">\n<p>Increasingly appalled.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, felt as she made numerous trips to Sierra Leone to help Ebola patients over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The suffering of the victims was terrible, of course. But so was the plight of the country\u2019s health care workers, who often weren\u2019t being paid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was horrid. They were doing life-saving work but weren\u2019t actually seeing any money,\u201d said Bhadelia, who\u2019s also an assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine , director of infection control and medical response at BU\u2019s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory , and a senior adviser to Boston-based Partners in Health.<\/p>\n<p>So Bhadelia launched a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the nurses, lab technicians, ambulance drivers, burial workers, and others treating Ebola victims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2015\/09\/02\/caring-for-caregivers\/mYx7iPCfeOJkQihL8MlrUN\/story.html\">Read Full Article in Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article from: Boston Globe posted on September 2, 2015&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3075,1298],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}