In the fight against Ebola. Germany will continue to support the people of West Africa. Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe, German Red Cross President Rudolf Seiters, President of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief Albrecht Broemme and the Ambassador of Sierra Leone, Jongopie Siaka Stevens, were at Berlin’s Schönefeld Airport to see the plane with the relief supplies take off.

First helpers in West Africa

The German Red Cross is already running the Ebola unit in Kenema, Sierra Leone. This 25-bed unit is currently being extended, which will allow it to provide 100 beds. This is why the relief supplies are urgently needed. The first German Red Cross volunteers are already in West Africa. Since the end of October the paediatrician and Red Cross volunteer Joachim Gardemann has been in charge of the hospital in Kenema.

In mid-November the German Red Cross will take over another treatment unit in Liberia, which the World Health Organization is building. Over the next few weeks, several relief flights are planned to transport material to West Africa for both units.