EBOLA UPRISING:SHOCKING PHOTOS OF BODIES IN BARROWS AND PATIENTS WRITHING ON DIRTY MATTRESSES AS LIBERIA STRUGGLES TO CONTAIN EBOLA EPIDEMIC WITH DEATH TOLL HITTING 3,500

 This is the scene at the heart of the Ebola crisis sweeping Liberia, as dying patients are wheeled from the spots in the street where they fell to medical centers who are unable to cope with the constant tide of sufferers.

The outbreak has crippled already poor healthcare systems in countries such as Liberia, where Ebola patients are dying on the street and ambulances, medical staff, hospital beds and basic health kits are in short supply.

  The latest figures from the World Health Organization show that the disease has now infected at least 7,423 people, with 3,355 confirmed deaths and this figures are likely to be much higher, officials have admitted.

Many patients are not counted because they never get medical help, perhaps hidden by fearful families or turned away by overwhelmed clinics. Some villages have turned into 'shadow zones' where villagers' resistance or the remote location makes investigating numerous deaths impossible.