The health ministry is to welcome 30 Cuban health workers today who will train local workers in Jamaica's Ebola preparedness.
The workers will conduct the training under an existing agreement between Jamaica and Cuba. The training of health workers forms part of the Government's Ebola preparation plan.
The health ministry says the construction of the Ebola Treatment Centre to be located at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James is progressing smoothly with the facility expected to be completed in a few weeks.
In a release yesterday, the acting permanent secretary, Dr Kevin Harvey, who toured the site on Saturday, indicated that he was pleased with the progress of the construction.
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Harvey was accompanied by a the team which included the Jamaica Defence Force, civil engineers from the Ministry of Health, and the director of Health Systems Planning and Integration in the Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization.
The treatment centre is a four-bed facility, which includes other areas for triaging, sanitising patients and staff and sterilisation of equipment and supplies.
A temporary Ebola isolation and holding area has also been established in a building on the compound of the facility. The area has already been equipped.
The treatment centre in the western region is one of two that have been established in the island to manage any possible case of Ebola. The other is located at the National Chest Hospital in St Andrew.
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