Ebola crisis: Nigerian Doctors
deploying to Sierra Leone
About a number of 100
Nigerian medical workers are expected to arrive in Sierra Leone to help with
the response to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
The workers, who include doctors, scientists and hygienists, have been trained by the medical aid agency, MSF.
It came a day after residents in the Guinean capital, Conakry, protested about the construction of an Ebola treatment clinic in their district.
The Ebola outbreak has killed more than 6,000 people in West Africa this year.
The Nigerian medical workers are the first part of a contingent of about 250 specialists the West African country is deploying to the three countries worst hit by Ebola - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
The workers are expected to stay for between three and six months, Nigerian officials say.
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