TIME Magazine has announced their person of the year, and this time around the honor goes to the Ebola Fighters who went where and when they were needed most.
TIME Magazine has announced their person of the year, and this time around there are a number of them.
The honor goes to the Ebola Fighters who went where they were needed most, despite the life-threatening dangers that awaited them.
5 front line workers are featured on as many covers, and include ambulance driver Foday Gallah, doctors Kent Brantly and Jerry Brown, and survivor Salome Karwah.
Doctors Without Borders health promoter Ella Watson-Stryker is also highlighted.
Editor Nancy Gibbs explains the magazine’s choice, writing, "The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are Time's 2014 Person of the Year."
She also notes that the crisis exposed how ill-equipped both the world’s citizens and its health systems are to handle the issues Ebola presents.
Gibbs point out that while a few stepped up to help far too many others chose to respond in ways that were largely ‘irrational’ and driven by ‘mistrust’.
