South Africa Plans $22.5 Million Fund for Ebola in Sierra Leone
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South Africa’s government, which has set up a laboratory for Ebola testing in Sierra Leone, wants private companies to help it raise 250 million rand ($22.5 million) for a 40-bed treatment center in that country.
“Government has committed 32.5 million rand,” Lucille Blumberg, head of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, said today in an interview from Johannesburg. “An important way to stop or reduce the spread of Ebola is to place infected people in treatment centers and stop their family getting infected. There simply are not enough centers.”