CHARLOTTE, NC — Two doctors with Charlotte-based SIM USA are heading to west Africa to help Ebola-stricken patients. One of them just spent three weeks in quarantine in Charlotte.
Doctors John Fankhauser and Dan Crawford will leave for Liberia on Friday. Fankhauser helped treat missionary Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantley when they contracted Ebola. He was quarantined last month after returning to the SIM campus in southwest Charlotte. This will be his third trip to Liberia, where Ebola has killed thousands.
“We can’t be paralyzed because we see risks,” said Dr. Fankhauser. “I think we just need to do everything that we can to minimize the risk, and continue to care for patients.”
SIM USA operates a 200-bed hospital and a 50-bed isolation unit for Ebola patients in the Liberian capital of Monrovia.
