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About 40 Canadian Forces medical personnel depart with U.K. reservists and troops
The Associated Press Posted: Dec 20, 2014 9:20 AM ET Last Updated: Dec 20, 2014 9:20 AM ET
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Reservists and troops from Britain and Canada have left for Sierra Leone to help in the battle to contain the Ebola virus outbreak.
British officials said Saturday that 16 reservists and 100 regular military personnel left on a morning flight from the Brize Norton military airbase.
Officials say Canadian military personnel — about 40 nurses, doctors, physicians’ assistants, medics and support workers — are on the same flight. The Canadians have been in the U.K. for the past two weeks to train for the mission alongside U.K. military personnel.
They will take over a field hospital providing treatment to health-care workers in Sierra Leone who have become infected with the often lethal virus.
The group has received special training in how to operate wearing protective gear.
Defence officials say Britain has roughly 800 military personnel in Sierra Leone. They are building facilities expected to provide 700 beds for treating people with the virus.
According to the World Health Organization, there have been more than 18,000 reported cases of Ebola and about 7,000 deaths worldwide. Fatalities have been repored in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Mali and the U.S.
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