Ebola crisis: British hospital ship to join fight against Ebola
- 9 years ago
British hospital ship the RFA Argus is preparing to sail to Sierra Leone to help fight the against Ebola.
The ship will leave the Falmouth Docks in Cornwall for Sierra Leone on Friday.
According to the BBC, the RFA Argus will sail with a crew of around 380 service people, including 80 medics and 80 Royal Marines. It is equipped with a 100-bed hospital and carries three Merlin helicopters.
"We have to get ahead of this disease,” UK’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was quoted by the Telegraph as saying. “But if we get ahead of it, if we rise to the challenge, we can contain it and beat it. We know how to do this, it is not complicated to do, it just requires a large focus of resource and effort to deliver it," he said.
The RFA Argus will remain docked off Sierra Leone for six months where strict rules will be applied to its crew members to ensure the ship remains sterile from Ebola, Sky News reported.
Personnel will be banned to leave the ship during up to three months of deployment and
any Royal Marine who will have to leave the ship for operations on land will go through a decontamination process upon his return.
The Marine will also have to answer a questionnaire and have his temperature taken twice a day.
The RFA Argus’ mission is to ferry supplies and personnel to Sierra Leone. It will not be used to directly treat Ebola-infected patients.
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The ship will leave the Falmouth Docks in Cornwall for Sierra Leone on Friday.
According to the BBC, the RFA Argus will sail with a crew of around 380 service people, including 80 medics and 80 Royal Marines. It is equipped with a 100-bed hospital and carries three Merlin helicopters.
"We have to get ahead of this disease,” UK’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was quoted by the Telegraph as saying. “But if we get ahead of it, if we rise to the challenge, we can contain it and beat it. We know how to do this, it is not complicated to do, it just requires a large focus of resource and effort to deliver it," he said.
The RFA Argus will remain docked off Sierra Leone for six months where strict rules will be applied to its crew members to ensure the ship remains sterile from Ebola, Sky News reported.
Personnel will be banned to leave the ship during up to three months of deployment and
any Royal Marine who will have to leave the ship for operations on land will go through a decontamination process upon his return.
The Marine will also have to answer a questionnaire and have his temperature taken twice a day.
The RFA Argus’ mission is to ferry supplies and personnel to Sierra Leone. It will not be used to directly treat Ebola-infected patients.
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