Justine Greening meets British Ebola survivor Will Pooley in Sierra Leone

From Aid | The Guardian Tue Oct 21 2014, 18:41:06

Minister visits Freetown clinic as part of UK £125m response to crisis, meeting nurse who returned after recovering from virus

The international development secretary, Justine Greening, has met British medics Will Pooley and Oliver Johnson at a Freetown clinic just hours after arriving in Sierra Leone as part of the UKs response to the Ebola crisis.

Greening described the governments three-pronged strategy to combat the disease: helping to change funeral practices identified as a leading cause of contagion; community outreach; and training of health workers.

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