Government Sends 30 NHS Staff to Help Ebola Fight

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Government Sends 30 NHS Staff to Help Ebola Fight
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• The first co-ordinated group of NHS staff are due
  to fly from London to Sierra Leone to help the
  fight against the Ebola virus.

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• Around 30 GPs, nurses, psychiatrists and
  emergency medicine consultants are being sent to
  the West African country's capital, Freetown.

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• There they will complete a week's training before
  starting work in Ebola treatment centres across
  the country.
• The Ebola virus has now killed more than 5,000
  people.

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• Every one of these NHS heroes will play a vital
  role in the fight against Ebola

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Justine Greening International Development
Secretary

• This is the first wave of NHS volunteers to be
  deployed by the UK government.
• The healthcare professionals will be diagnosing
  and treating those who have contracted the virus.

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Make a difference'

• Donna Wood, senior sister at Haywood Hospital in
  Staffordshire, who is one of the volunteers
  leaving the UK, said "I'd been following the
  stories on the news so when I saw an email from
  the NHS highlighting the Ebola situation in
  Sierra Leone, and calling for volunteers, I felt
  I had to act.

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• "I knew I could use the skills I've got to make a
  difference and join a team to help bring the
  disease under control."
• Ms Wood said she had received gold standard
  training.

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• She added "We're very lucky in this country to
  have the NHS, the staff and the skills - it's
  just not the case everywhere else.
• "My parents and the whole family are proud of my
  decision to go."

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• The NHS volunteers have been preparing for
  deployment with intensive training at a Ministry
  of Defence facility in York.
• More teams of volunteers are set to leave in the
  coming weeks after hundreds came forward to offer
  their services.

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'Commitment'

• Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies said "I
  have been really impressed with the numbers of
  NHS workers who have stepped forward to help the
  communities that have been devastated by Ebola.
• "The fact that more than 1,000 have come forward
  so far is a real testament to their commitment to
  public service."

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• Prof Tony Redmond, head of the charity UK-Med,
  which has organised the health workers'
  deployment, said he was proud of all the
  "selfless volunteers".
• There are now 1,000 British military personnel,
  scientists, healthcare and aid workers operating
  in West Africa, in a bid to contain the disease,
  International Development Secretary Justine
  Greening said.

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• She added "To beat Ebola we desperately need the
  experience and dedication of skilled doctors and
  nurses to care for the thousands of sick and
  dying patients who are not receiving the
  treatment they need.
• "Every one of these NHS heroes will play a vital
  role in the fight against Ebola.

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• "It is only because of their combined efforts
  that we stand a chance of defeating this
  disease."

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