WHAT: Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre dry run
WHEN: Tuesday 4 November, 9am-10am. Interviews will take
place on site 10am-10.30am.
WHERE: Kerry Town, Sierra Leone
We are
pleased to inform you that a new Ebola treatment centre, mainly funded by the
Department for International Development will open for patients in Sierra Leone
on Wednesday 5 November.
The Kerry
Town complex, based just outside the capital Freetown, includes an 80 bed treatment centre to be managed by Save
The Children and a 12 bed centre, which will expand to 20 beds over
the coming months, for health care workers and international staff responding
to the Ebola crisis to be staffed by British Army medics. The site also hosts a
lab to test for the disease run by British volunteer scientists. The centre’s
initial phase will begin on Wednesday before it gradually becomes fully
operational over the coming weeks.
Media are
invited to a dry run of the centre on Tuesday 4 November. Save the Children staff, healthcare workers and
UK military personnel will be testing procedures and equipment before live
patients arrive the next day.
Save the Children representatives and UK military personnel and Public Health
England scientists will all be available for interview.
WHO: For interviews with Save The Children
representatives please contact Andy Mason 078847236 and Caroline Anning079234998.
With
thanks
Abdulai
Abdulai Bunduka | Information and
Communications Officer | Save the
Children | 22 Kingharman Road Freetown, Sierra Leone| Mobile+232 (0) 76
517489/77898042| Abdulai.Bunduka@savethechildren.org
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