First NHS volunteers set to leave for Sierra Leone on Ebola mission The 50 volunteers have undergone extensive training designed to ensure none of them return to the UK with the virus.
The first batch of NHS staff who volunteered to treat Ebola patients in Sierra Leone are to leave the UK for west Africa after undergoing extensive training designed to ensure none return with the virus.
The 50 staff will depart nearly six weeks after they were shortlisted as suitable by UK-Med, the organisation funded by the Department for International Development to recruit NHS staff for secondment. Nearly 1,000 volunteered, but because of the need for careful selection and training, none have yet flown out. Continue reading... The Guardian
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