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16/10/2014
91 British Army Medics En-Route To West Africa
Ninety one army medics are on their way to set up and run a field hospital in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to provide medical support to healthcare workers treating Ebola patients.
The medics, from 22 Field Hospital in Aldershot, include doctors, nurses and infectious disease consultants.
It is hoped that establishing a unit "specifically for healthcare workers" will provide "sufficient reassurance" and encourage healthcare workers "to come and help defeat this disease," Lieutenant Colonel Alison McCourt said.
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The medics, from 22 Field Hospital in Aldershot, include doctors, nurses and infectious disease consultants.
It is hoped that establishing a unit "specifically for healthcare workers" will provide "sufficient reassurance" and encourage healthcare workers "to come and help defeat this disease," Lieutenant Colonel Alison McCourt said.
(MH/CD)
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