![]() ![]() ![]() All you needed were garbage bags, a raincoat, and no small amount of love and courage. Local medical workers called Fatu Kekula’s measures the Trash Bag Method. Her parents and sister survived her cousin died. Dressed this way, Fatu Kekula set up IV lines for her family members, giving them saline solution to keep them from becoming dehydrated. She put on a raincoat, a surgical mask, and multiple rubber gloves, and she covered her head with pantyhose and a garbage bag. She tied garbage bags over her feet and legs, put on rubber boots over the bags, and then put more bags over her boots. She didn’t have any protective gear, so she created a bio-hazmat suit out of plastic garbage bags. “In a town in Liberia, a young woman named Fatu Kekula, who was a nursing student, ended up caring for four of her family members at home when there was no room for them in a hospital-her parents, her sister, and a cousin. ![]()
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