Kerry Town
{{About|the locality and Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone|similar uses|Kerrytown (disambiguation){{!}}Kerrytown}}
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File:Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone MOD 45158320.jpg
Kerry Town is a village in the Rural District in the Western Area of Sierra Leone[http://sierra-leone.places-in-the-world.com/2566367-place-kerry-town.html]. the town is located about {{convert|31|km|mi|0}} from the national capital, Freetown, which lies to the west-north-west.{{cite web|title=Kerry Town, Sierra Leone Weather Forecast|url=http://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/Kerry-Town-1/forecasts/latest|accessdate=30 December 2014}} The population of Kerry Town is largely from the Krio ethnic group. The Treatment of the Ebola Virus clinic is located in Kerry Town.
Ebola treatment centre
Kerry Town is home to a centre for the treatment of Ebola virus disease.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/30/uk-ebola-patient-infection-setback-save-the-children|title=UK Ebola patient's infection a fresh setback for Sierra Leone clinic|date=30 December 2014|work=The Guardian|author=Sarah Boseley }} The facility was opened in November 2014 during the Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone.{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-british-ebola-treatment-facility-opens-in-sierra-leone|title=Press release: First British Ebola treatment facility opens in Sierra Leone|publisher=GOV.UK|date=5 November 2014}}
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.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11212080/British-Ebola-clinic-opens-for-patients-in-Sierra-Leone.html|title=British Ebola clinic opens for patients in Sierra Leone|date=5 November 2014|publisher=The Telegraph|author=Colin Freeman }}
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/29/ebola-case-confirmed-glasgow-healthcare-worker|title=Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow|work=The Guardian|date=29 December 2014|author=Severin Carrell, Libby Brooks and Lisa O'Carroll}}{{cite news|title=Hero nurse Pauline Cafferkey could have contracted deadly Ebola at Christmas Day service|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/11317226/Ebola-in-Scotland-Hero-nurse-Pauline-Cafferkey-spoke-movingly-of-saving-lives.html|publisher=The Telegraph|date=30 December 2014}}
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Category:Hospitals in Sierra Leone
Category:2014 establishments in Sierra Leone
Category:Health facilities that treated Ebola patients
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