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_Published 2014-10-06. People Are Prank Calling Liberia’s Ebola Hotline_


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## Transcript

[ INAUDIBLE ] The people are taking the body already? You can call back within an hour. Sorry for your loss. Sometimes, you feel downhearted because you put yourself in the person's shoe and feel it. and it feels like it's happening to you. [ MUSIC ] You say you're 10 years, and you say you were born 2008. 2008, is that 19 years? It cut off. What's your name? [ CROSSTALK ] Good afternoon. She cut it off. That was a child. When you receive a call to help people, and then someone just call and say come to the place here, and when you say where, you want to know the location then the person just.

off the line. And sometimes abuse you, you know. It make you feel sometimes discouraged. But all in all we have to do this to help our people. Sometimes I get upset. You know, it really is upsetting when you know you're doing your work, and people are just playing. And this one guy has been calling all the line, when he call in. Agent A pick up, he drops it and call H, A and O. So, he playing with all the agents. Are you listening to what I'm saying? This is the call center. We are here to pick up call for sick people and you are occupying the line. And then the public will call and say that we're not picking up phones.

The very next time we see your number I will have the police pick you up. [ MUSIC ]

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