Kerry Town
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Kerry Town is a locality in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, in West Africa. It is about 31 km south-west of Freetown.[1]
Ebola treatment centre
Kerry Town is home to a centre for the treatment of Ebola virus disease.[2] The facility was opened in November 2014 during the Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone.[3]
In early November 2014 the Ebola clinic in Kerry Town was completed after eight weeks of construction by the Ministry of Defence and handed over to the charity Save the Children. The clinic was the first of six planned clinics in the West Africa region. The clinic consisted of an 80 bed treatment centre with a 12 bed treatment centre for healthcare workers. The centre is staffed by Cuban and Sierra Leonean medics and international aid workers from Save the Children while the healthcare section are manned by British Army medics.[4]
On 29 December 2014, Pauline Cafferkey, a British aid worker who had just returned to Glasgow from working at the treatment centre in Kerry Town, was diagnosed with Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel General Hospital.[5][6]
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