 The first surgeons at the hospital were Lucille Teasdale-Corti and Piero Corti, who arrived in 1961.Teasdale-Corti later died, in 1996, of the AIDS she had contracted from a patient while performing surgery.Other notable employees include Matthew Lukwiya, who was instrumental in containing a 2000 outbreak of Ebola, before succumbing to the disease himself.