Commander Joint Operations (CJO), Lt Gen Capewell at the Kerry Town site
As part of Britain's response to "defeat" Ebola in Sierra Leone, another 150 of its troops arrive this morning to join up with the 400 already on ground.
A source who cannot be named because they are not allowed to talk to the press, told Politico that the contingent would be mostly army medics who will work in the treatment centres being constructed as part of the UK's £ 125 million intervention in containing the outbreak.
There have been calls for the building of treatment centres with none in the north - which is an Ebola hotspot - and the south which has only a 35-bed clinic run by the French charity MSF.
Meanwhile on Sunday the British volunteer nurse, William Pooley, who contracted Ebola in August while working in Kenema has returned to Freetown to continue from where he left off. He was treated in London where he recovered and is now immune from the disease.
He is working with the King's Health Partner which runs the Holding Centre for suspect Ebola cases, at Connaught Hospital.
Pooley first arrived in Sierra Leone as a volunteer for the Shepherd Hospice at Allen Town where he cared for HIV/AIDS patients. He later went to Kenema after he had read about the plight of Ebola patients there and the fact that health workers were succumbing to the disease.
(C) Politico 21/10/14
