St. Paul school staffer to help Ebola-stricken dad
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A St. Paul public school staffer plans to travel to Sierra Leone to help her father, who is stricken with Ebola.
Thirty-one-year-old Mariama Kpaka-Sengita has been granted a leave of absence from the school district to care for her father -- but with conditions.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports she has to contact her doctor as soon as she returns to the U.S., and she won't be allowed to go back to work for 21 days after she returns.
Kpaka-Sengita doesn't plan to provide direct care to her 67-year-old father. She hopes to go to the U.S. embassy in Sierra Leone to see if officials there can get her father treated at a hospital.
Both the U.S. State Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have advised against nonessential travel to Sierra Leone.
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