Thirty-seven Canadian Armed Forces doctors, nurses, medics and support staff have started working at a British-run Ebola clinic in Sierra Leone.
The centre at Kerry Town primarily provides care for local and international health-care workers who contract Ebola.
The World Health Organization said this week 649 health-care workers have contracted the disease and 365 have died. Most of those health-care workers are from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the three main countries affected by this outbreak.
Canada is also sending second mobile testing laboratory and the scientists who operate it to a new Doctors Without Borders management centre at Magburaka, Sierra Leone.
In addition, Canada has been operating a mobile lab in eastern Sierra Leone since June.
The missions are being funded from $113.4 million the Canadian government has committed in humanitarian aid to fight the spread of the disease.
According to the the latest WHO figures, the number of Ebola cases worldwide is approaching 20,000 with nearly 7,600 deaths. Just under 2,800 people have died from the disease in Sierra Leone.
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