TIME Magazine Person of the Year Ebola fighter dies

Salome Karwah, the Ebola fighter, who was the TIME Magazine Person of the Year in 2014 is dead.

Karwah died from childbirth complications on Tuesday, February 21, 2017. It was three days after she gave birth to her fourth child. According to her sister, Josephine Manley, Karwah started having convulsions after giving birth. The convulsions were as a result of the complications of surgery.

Manley told TIME that staff of the hospital were afraid to touch her sister because of her Ebola history. "They said she was an Ebola survivor. They didn’t want contact with her fluids. They all gave her distance. No one would give her an injection."

Karwah was a survivor of Ebola and helped her country Liberia battle the 2014 outbreak. She became immune to the disease and eliminated the disease with the help of others. Her sister and fiancé also survived the disease.

"I can do things that other people can’t. If an Ebola patient is in his house, and his immediate relative cannot go to him, I can go to him. I can take [care of] him" she said in 2014.

A GoFund Me page by family and friends of Karwah is now up to support Salome Karwah's children.

TIME Magazine named Salome Karwah and other Ebola fighters Person of the Year in 2014.

Salome Karwah's death highlights the stigmatisation Ebola survivors face every day.