The first Canadian military medical team to join the international efforts against Ebola in West Africa has arrived in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone.
The 37 doctors, nurses, paramedics and support staff will be working in a British-run clinic, treating patients from the general population, as well as health-care personnel who contracted the virus in the course of their duties.
They will be in the country for up to six months. Meanwhile, Canadian laboratory scientists dispatched in June are still providing assistance in the eastern part of the country.
On top of providing help on the ground, Canada has pledged $113.5 million in the fight against Ebola.
A health-care worker in isolation in British Columbia
A nurse who returned to Canada on Christmas day from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has tested negative for the virus.
The woman from Kelowna, British Columbia, began experiencing mild flu-like symptoms over the weekend and was advised to go to the hospital.
The provincial Ministry of Health says she is being kept in isolation at Kelowna General Hospital as a precaution, until further tests are completed.
In a statement, the patient wrote, “my biggest concern is that the publicity given to my situation here in BC right now might deflect some of the attention from the real issue, which is the plight of the people in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia. I want to reassure my family and the public that I have absolute confidence that I am receiving the best of care in a fashion that fully protects the public.”
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