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A medical worker treats Ebola patients at a hospital in Monrovia. Photo: AFP
China will help Sierra Leone set up an Ebola laboratory and a holding centre, a Chinese official said, as the United States and Britain announced they would send troops and equipment to West Africa to help curb the spread of the disease.
Dr Wang Yu, director general of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and part of a team visiting the country, said the facilities would be based at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital on the edge of Freetown.
Wang said that China would soon airlift the mobile lab to Sierra Leone and that China would also work with the west African country to select a site for the establishment of a bio-safety laboratory.
The US military will set up isolation units and equipment for health workers arriving in West Africa and establish a 25-bed field hospital in Monrovia. British military engineers and medical experts will build a 62-bed care facility near Freetown.
McClatchy-Tribune and Xinhua
