Senegal battle ready for Ebola with new treatment centres

After being declared Ebola-free months ago, Senegal is still relentless in controlling any possible outbreak of the Ebola virus in its country.

With a dozen tents and twelve beds surrounded by a double fence, an Ebola emergency treatment centre has been built in the Fann Hospital in Dakar to contain the virus in case it penetrates the country’s porous borders,RFI reports.

The centre, a partnership between the government, Red Cross and the Japanese cooperation, will also be used for outbreaks associated with other infectious diseases.

Since the outbreak of the Ebola virus, Senegal recorded only one case in August 2014 which was contained. The Ebola emergency treatment centre is built just as the ones in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, but has not yet received a patient.

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