AUSTRALIA TO CONTRACT PRIVATE MEDICAL STAFF TO FIGHT EBOLA (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, November 05, 2014, 00:14

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that Australia will contract medical workers from a private company to treat Ebola victims in Sierra Leone.

About A$20m (£11m; $17m) will also be committed to a treatment centre being built by the UK.

But Mr Abbott said he would not be sending government health workers.

Australia previously refused to send workers to fight an epidemic that has killed some 5,000 people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Mr Abbott wanted other governments to agree to evacuate any of its medical staff who contracted the disease, before sending staff.

But Mr Abbott has now obtained reassurances from the UK, local media said.

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