(Daily Mail) A medic has spoken of the horrific scenes witnessed by emergency doctors and nurses in the fight against the deadly Ebola outbreak in Guinea.

Naoufel Dridi, who works with humanitarian charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), described the suffering by patients struck down by the tropical virus, and the difficulties facing aid workers as they attempt to treat those suffering.

French Mr Dridi, 41, has been helping coordinate the charity’s relief work in the West African country and said that in his 13 years working with MSF he had never had to cope with the number of deaths in such a short space of time.

Battle: Health specialists work in an isolation ward for patients at the Médecins Sans Frontières facility in Guekedou, southern Guinea

Battle: Health specialists work in an isolation ward for patients at the Médecins Sans Frontières facility in Guekedou, southern Guinea

Horror: Naoufel Dridi, who works with MSF has described the suffering by patients struck down by the tropical virus, and the difficulties facing aid workers, such as these medics

Horror: Naoufel Dridi, who works with MSF has described the suffering by patients struck down by the tropical virus, and the difficulties facing aid workers, such as these medics

The number of suspected cases in Guinea has now reached 122, and at least 80 people are believed to have died.

‘You can be helping somebody by getting them a juice, or a glass of cold water, or whatever he wants because you know really he has very little chance to survive, and then less than an hour later he is dead,’ Mr Dridi told the Daily Telegraph.

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