The Ebola Treatment Centre in Liberia will soon be up and running. A second Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) team set off from Berlin on Monday. More than 60 Federal Armed Forces and German Red Cross volunteers are now providing assistance in West Africa.

Support for assistants suffering from Ebola

Germany is willing and able to treat assistants suffering from Ebola here in Germany. Suitable return transport is also provided for.

In consultation with the Robert Koch Institute, the Federal Foreign Office is fitting out a Lufthansa aircraft with an isolation ward in order to facilitate the evacuation and treatment of highly infectious patients. The aircraft is expected to come into use on 25 November.

In addition, the Federal Ministry of Defence has procured isolators for the repatriation of patients who are infectious but not in need of intensive treatment. The isolators will be used in the Federal Armed Forces' MedEvac aircraft.

Great demand for Federal Armed Forces' airlifts

The Federal Armed Forces is carrying out airlifts in the affected areas of West Africa. Flying from a base in Dakar to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are two Federal Armed Forces' Transall military transport aircraft. To date they have completed more than 85 flights, delivering around 170 tonnes of aid, which include tents and vehicles as well as medical equipment. The aid is urgently needed and helps improve the situation of affected local people.

G20agree to provide aid

The heads of state and government praised the efforts of the West African states in fighting the Ebola epidemic in a Statement on Ebola.

The G20 nations have agreed to do everything necessary to stop the outbreak of Ebola. In Brisbane they declared that financial and other aid must be made reliably available, both for emergency relief as well as for the long-term support of the affected countries.

EU-European Unionincreases aid

Last Monday theEU-European Union announced that it is to increase its financial aid in the fight against Ebola. This means support from the EU-European Union– including contributions from member states – has now reached 1.1 billion euros.