Canada sends more help to fight Ebola in West Africa

TORONTO SUN      by Hal Roberts                              Jan. 13, 2015

OTTAWA — A third mobile lab and two more scientists from the Public Health Agency of Canada are on their way to help fight Ebola in West Africa.

Sean Freeman points out on a map of Africa where he was working at the Red Cross offices in downtown Calgary, Alta. where he has returned from working at the Red Cross Ebola Treatment Centre in Kenema, Sierra Leone. on Monday January 5, 2015. Stuart Dryden/QMI Agency

The doctors will spend a week in Amsterdam and Belgium to train with Doctors without Borders before heading to Sierra Leone on Jan. 18.

"It is our hope that the work of this third mobile laboratory — providing physicians with ongoing information about the health of their patients — will allow health-care workers to provide medical treatments tailored to their patients' needs and ultimately, save more lives," Health Minister Rona Ambrose said in a statement Tuesday.

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