Nigerian and British Ebola volunteers fly into Liberia, Sierra Leone

Additonal  Nigerian and British health workers arrive in Liberia and Sierra Leone to help counter Ebola

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REUTERS  by James Harding Giahyue and Umaru Fofana   Dec. 5, 2014
MONROVIA/FREETOWN --More than 175 Nigerian medics arrived in Liberia and Sierra Leone on Friday to join the fight against Ebola, the first of 600 volunteers promised by the regional giant which contained its own outbreak earlier this year.

An army medic teaches NHS staff how to dispose of potentially contaminated waste last month, before their deployment to Sierra Leone. Photograph: Simon Davis/AFP/Getty Images

The medics will boost weak local health systems that are also struggling to contain other preventable diseases as Ebola discourages people from going to clinics for fear of contracting the fever.

"This is the African spirit you are showing, this is the Nigerian spirit,” Nigeria's ambassador to Liberia, Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, told 76 Nigerian medics who landed there.

Another 100 volunteers landed in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Months into the Ebola response, experts say they are still short of medical personnel to staff treatment centers.

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Healthcare workers from across the UK will join volunteers who flew to Sierra Leone in November

UK PRESS ASSOCIATION                                                                                              Dec. 5, 2014

A second group of National Health Service volunteers will arrive in Sierra Leone tomorrow to help tackle the Ebola outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives in west Africa.

The 25 doctors, nurses and other medical staff from across the UK will join NHS volunteers who flew to Sierra Leone last month.

International Development Secretary Justine Greening said: “The British fight against Ebola in west Africa is already paying dividends.

“More than 600 treatment and safe isolation beds are now operational, thousands of healthcare workers have been trained, and the first of three new labs is up and running, significantly boosting the capacity of the country to test blood and swab samples."

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