Ebola treatment centre for pregnant women opens

The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières says expectant mothers face a higher liklihood of dying from the Ebola virus-- with a mortality rate of almost 100 per cent.

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MSF is so concerned by the death rates, that it has opened its first Ebola treatment centre specialising in care for infected pregnant women.

The site has been erected in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown.

So far, six pregnant women have been admitted to the specialist centre since it opened in December 2014, but only one woman has made a full recovery from the disease.

More than 8000 people have died from Ebola in the current outbreak in West Africa.