Treatment Facility Construction Continues in Liberia

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2. U.S. Ebola force continues to build in West Africa

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20141015/NEWS08/310150072/U-S-Ebola-force-continues-build-West-Africa

U.S. Ebola force continues to build in West Africa
Oct. 15, 2014 - 08:36PM
By Patricia Kime
Staff writer

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In a Skype interview with attendees at the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Williams said U.S. troops — some of whom have been in West Africa now a month — have finished building a hospital for infected health workers in Monrovia, are nearing completion of the first couple of 17 area Ebola treatment centers and are manning at least five mobile laboratories for testing specimens.

Williams said the “lion’s share” of the work on the 17 treatment centers will be completed by late November or early December, providing 1,700 beds throughout the region for Ebola patients.

According to Williams, roughly 540 troops and Pentagon civilians of a planned 3,200 have arrived in the region, including Navy Seabees, a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response team with four MV-22 Osprey aircraft, airmen with the 62nd Airlift Wing, soldiers and Coast Guardsmen.

Troops from the 101st Airborne Division and Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, who is slated to assume command of the operation, are expected to arrive in the coming days.

The service members will provide command and control, logistics and engineering support to the local governments, nongovernmental organizations and health workers battling the Ebola epidemic.

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