More than 150 health-care workers are being trained by two Cuban experts over the next three weeks as part of the Ebola preparedness, response and management activities.
The training will cover epidemiology, patient management, safety, infection control, use of personal protective equipment, risks associated with Ebola, and isolation. The training sessions began on Monday. There will be four training sessions each over a three day period.
Among the participants are doctors and nurses from the public and private health sectors, representatives from the University Hospital of the West Indies and the School of Public Health, University of Technology. These persons, along with the 30 Cuban workers who arrived in the island in November, will be a part of the team of health staff in preparation in case Ebola reaches Jamaica.
The training is part of an agreement reached during a mission to Cuba in October led by Minister of Health Dr Fenton Ferguson.
The two Cubans, who are experts in the field of microbiology and epidemiology, arrived in Jamaica on November 29 from the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) in Havana.
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