Sole Australian-run Ebola treatment centre to close

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD by Dan Harrison                                                                       April 20, 2015
The Australian-funded Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone will shut its doors at the end of the month, following a stabilisation of the outbreak in West Africa.                           Health care workers at the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. Photo: AP

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced on Monday that Australia's sole facility, at Hastings airfield, near Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, would close on April 30.

Ms Bishop said the decision followed a process led by the government of Sierra Leone to rationalise and consolidate Ebola treatment centres.

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