Ebola drill to be held tomorrow

The Department of Health today said that a Ebola national simulation drill will be held tomorrow.

The drill is a continuation of a number of exercise drills which have been ongoing over the past months over various areas to test procedures which have been outlined as a response to the possibility of a case of Ebola viral disease.

It is thought that a number of civil protection rescuers and police officers will be joining medical staff in a drill simulating the safe transportation of a patient to hospital.

The virus has so far been confined mostly top West Africa, with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia accounting for nearly 5,000 Ebola deaths.

But as cases continue to climb the growing epidemic has swept in a belated influx of international aid as well as political and social tensions as governments’ popularity ratings take a battering.