Medics on their way to Sierra Leone

Friday 17 Oct 2014 @ 08:05
Ministry of Defence

Personnel from Hampshire’s 22 Field Hospital will provide a key component in the UK’s response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

They will join the 40 who are already in the country establishing a 92-bed treatment facility. 12 of these beds will be set aside for the specific treatment of healthcare workers and will be operated solely by the Britain’s military medics.

Among the 91 deploying were general nurses, medical technicians, specialist nurses, doctors, infectious disease consultants as well as drivers, chefs, administrators and logistical staff.

This assortment of trades and professions is required to deliver the necessary means by which to take on the deadly disease.

The troops are expected to arrive in Sierra Leone around lunchtime yesterday, 16 October, where they will operate the 12-bed healthcare workers’ treatment facility located in Kerry Town, about 50 kilometres from the capital, Freetown.

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