Operation Gritrock: first UK army medics fly to Sierra Leone

This week the first group of 150 British army medical staff fly to Sierra Leone to set up a treatment centre for health workers infected with the Ebola virus. We hope that the provision of high quality medical care will reduce mortality among affected patients. Our facility will be sited next to a larger Ebola treatment centre to be run by the charity Save the Children.

We have spent the past two weeks in comprehensive training, including lectures from experts in infectious disease, narrative accounts from health workers who have been to Sierra Leone, cultural awareness and language …