Meet Dr. Gorbee Logan , the county health director for Bomi County in Liberia . You have now met half the medical team in Bomi County . There are two doctors in the entire county . I do n't mean two doctors to treat Ebola patients but two doctors , period . Two doctors to take care of Ebola patients , plus the 100 patients in their general hospital , plus the rest of the county . That 's two doctors for about 85,000 people . Logan does n't complain , even though he 's been working around the clock since June , when the first Ebola case appeared in this agricultural county . He would , however , like an actual Ebola treatment center . He 's been taking care of patients in a holding facility , which has only 12 beds . Sometimes they have nearly double that number , and patients overflow onto mattresses on the floor . He ca n't send these patients to real Ebola treatment centers because they 're all full . Ebola outbreak : How to help . Logan has been begging the federal government for more than a month for an official Ebola treatment unit , one with more beds and a quarantine area for people who 've come in close contact with Ebola patients but are n't sick . My team and I -- senior producer John Bonifield , senior photographer Orlando Ruiz and our coordinator , Liberian journalist Orlind Cooper -- saw firsthand Tuesday night just how much he needs a real hospital . About 7 p.m. , an ambulance arrived at Logan 's facility in Tubmanburg with five people who , the day before , had washed the bodies of a mother and daughter who had died of Ebola . After they 'd done the washing , their community kicked them out , Logan told us . Now the five relatives -- three adults , a 13-year-old and a 5-year-old -- were in the ambulance in Ebola limbo . They could n't go back home , and they could n't go into the facility because they might get infected . Complete coverage of the Ebola outbreak . By the light of a single bulb outside the facility , Logan convened an impromptu meeting between himself , county Superintendent Samuel Brown and acting county Field Officer Frances Alesi . It was decided they 'd look for a government building of some kind where the family could spend the 21-day quarantine . The county health department would feed them and take care of their needs . But they were n't going to find a place until the morning . The five relatives would have to spend the night in the ambulance . Logan put in an order for a second ambulance so they could stretch out and sleep more comfortably . Desperation grows in the Ebola zone . Logan and his staff are doing a heroic job of taking care of Ebola patients under difficult circumstances . He 's strict about infection control -- no health care workers have died on his watch -- and he resourcefully tries different drugs to save his dying patients . Here 's what I do n't understand : With the millions upon millions of dollars spent in West Africa on Ebola , why does n't this man get his treatment center ? These centers are the single most important way to prevent the transmission of the disease , since they isolate the infected . We left Tubmanburg and Logan and his ambulance full of Ebola contacts and headed back to Monrovia . I fell asleep in the car to the sounds of One Direction on my iPhone ( I have tween daughters ) . Just as the boys were telling me `` What Makes You Beautiful , '' the car came to a stop , and I heard the sounds of male yelling . LIberian English is beautiful and mellifluous and largely incomprehensible to me , especially when spoken at loud volume with a lot of testosterone and passion behind it . But I figured out this was a checkpoint , and the young men with guns wanted us to get out and wash our hands and have our temperature taken . Cooper , our coordinator and an accomplished Liberian journalist , argued with the guards . They did n't back down . They told us the president of Liberia had been through the same checkpoint earlier in the day , and she 'd gotten out for the wash and check . Cooper shot back that was fine for her , but we were n't getting out of the car . The screaming back and forth went on for about 20 minutes . Finally , Cooper won . We visibly and dramatically sprayed our hands inside the car with the disinfectant we had with us and leaned our heads out the window so they could check our temperature . No contact : Life inside the Ebola outbreak . The guard aimed the thermometer at my temple ; `` 36.4 , '' he said , and kept staring at me . I had a moment of anxiety -- why was he staring ? I do n't use Celsius every day , but I knew that was a normal temperature . I smiled back . After a few beats the guard moved on . I invited One Direction back into my ears and fell asleep for the rest of the ride back to Monrovia .
Bomi County , Liberia , has just two doctors . Logan takes care of patients in a holding facility , which has only 12 beds . The hospital is run by the government and there are no private clinics or hospitals to go to for medical treatment.