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Canadian Military Medical Staff End Six-month Ebola Mission In Sierra Leone

The Canadian Press, 30 Jun, 2015 10:30 AM

TORONTO — The federal government says a six-month mission that sent Canadian Armed Forces medical personnel to West Africa to help with the Ebola crisis is over.

The military doctors, nurses, medics and support staff have been working in Sierra Leone since Dec. 30.

The Canadian mission, which was dubbed Operation Sirona, saw the Armed Forces personnel working at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment unit, which is run by the British government.

A statement from the Department of National Defence says Britain has informed Canada it no longer needs Canadian help at Kerry Town because of the decline in cases.

A total of 79 medical and support personnel from the Canadian Armed Forces took part in Operation Sirona.

Though case counts have declined markedly since last fall, Ebola transmission continues at low levels in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

And the Liberian ministry of health announced today they had found a case of Ebola, their first since March.

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