The Right to Care organisation, which partnered with the national Department of Health to send the first batch of health workers almost a month ago, says 20 nurses and three paramedics are expected to leave for Sierra Leone on Friday.

“The health workers have undergone pre-deployment training given by the African Union and Department of Health officials. On arrival in affected countries, the health workers will undergo further intensive training for two weeks before embarking on their duties,” the organisation said on Monday.

It said the African Union Commissioner of Social Affairs, Dr Mustapha Sidiki Kaloko, commended the South African government for sending health workers, saying that the 835 African medical personnel so far deployed by ASEOWA have impacted positively on reducing both new infections and deaths from Ebola.

Available: http://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/ebola-second-group-health-workers-sent-west-africa