THE British nurse who survived Ebola has hinted he could return to the country where he contracted the virus to help fight the outbreak.
Sierra Leone is among several West African countries in the grip of the deadly virus and William Pooley was working with patients when he became ill himself.
The volunteer nurse, 29, was flown back to the UK for treatment in a special unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London with experimental drug ZMapp and has since been given the all-clear and discharged.
In an interview with the Guardian Mr Pooley, from Suffolk, suggested both the UK and US governments should do more to tackle the epidemic. He said: "It's a global problem and it needs global level leadership so Obama and Cameron ... need to show some more leadership on this issue.
"Sierra Leone needs lots of international healthcare workers working with big NGOs like MSF and Red Cross. All of that needs to be increased.
"So while I'm happy to be recovered and alive, there's a lot of stuff on my mind with what's going on back there. It would be relatively safe for me to go back and work there ... It's the least I could do to go back and return the favour to some other people, even just for a little while."
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