The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) has established a new Ebola Treatment Centre at the facilities of the 34 Military Hospital in Freetown, according to a press release issued yesterday.
The new treatment centre was officially opened on Monday 2 December with the first batch of eight suspected and confirmed cases transferred from the Holding Centre of the military facility in western Freetown.
Commanding Officer of the joint medical unit and head of the 34 Military Hospital, Colonel Professor Foday Sahr, said the treatment centre would accommodate 40 suspected and confirmed Ebola patients at a time.
He added that the centre would increase the availability of more bed facilities across the country and that the 40-bed facility would be entirely manned by RSLAF doctors and nurses.
The military medical professor also announced that the two medical doctors, who had been admitted with Ebola virus at the Hastings Treatment Centre, were “very stable”.
He confirmed that Dr Konoyiema and Dr Komba Songu-M’briwa had been transferred from the treatment ward to the convalescent since last Saturday. He disclosed that the infected medical doctors would be discharged following their confirmation tests this week.
Giving the statistics of the cases at the Hastings Treatment Centre since its establishment on 19 September, 2014, the Colonel said “as at 29 November, 2014, 585 patients had been admitted at the centre with 363 discharges and 155 deaths.”
© Politico 02/12/14
