Ebola has claimed a second leading doctor in Sierra Leone, dealing another blow to the country’s faltering efforts to stem the disease.  The death of Dr. Modupeh Cole comes two weeks after the death of the virologist who was leading the fight against the killer disease in Sierra Leone.

The 56-year old Cole had contracted the virus while treating a patient at the country’s leading hospital.  The patient was later confirmed to have Ebola; Cole was isolated at the Ebola treatment center operated by Doctors Without Borders in the northeastern town of Kailahun, where he died.

“You can imagine what this does to the younger cohort.  It’s like having a general falling in battle.  It just brings more misery.  It’s not good. When you have a health system that’s constrained, it’s a bit too much,” said Dr. Amara Jambai, director of prevention and control at the health ministry.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says doctors diagnosed 128 new cases of Ebola on 10 August and 11 August, and 56 died.  That brings the death toll of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak to 1,069.