Cuba sends nearly 300 more Doctors and Nurses to fight Ebola in West Africa

Cuba says it will send nearly 300 more doctors and nurses to West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic.

The Cubans will work in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

The Head of the Cuban Medical Relief Agency, Regla Angulo, said the staff is currently undergoing intense training ahead of their deployment, working in a mock field hospital of the kind they expect to find in the region.

Cuba's decision comes as health experts from 16 European countries urged their governments to massively scale up manpower and resources to fight West Africa's Ebola epidemic, now threatening the entire world.

The Director of the World Health Organisation, Margaret Chan, says the virus is still running ahead, jumping over everything put in place to slow it down.

Source: Aljazeera