Samaritan’s Purse to airlift an Ebola Treatment Center to Congo :: WRAL.com

Samaritan’s Purse will is be helping with Ebola relief.

The Boone-based international Christian relief organization will airlift an Ebola Treatment
Center and personal protective equipment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday. 

The organization said it has already sent disaster response specialists, including an outbreak specialist, infection, prevention and control specialist and medical personnel. 

The group will be working with the Ministry of Health to establish an emergency field hospital specifically adapted to treat Ebola patients.

The organization’s plane will carry more than 34 tons of medical supplies. It will land in Uganda and supplies will be transported to the Congo. 

“As
this deadly Ebola virus spreads so does people’s fear and uncertainty. They are
in desperate need of emergency medical relief and supplies to help prevent the
spread of this outbreak,” said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse.

This isn’t the first time Samaritan’s Purse has set up Ebola Treatment Centers. 

In 2014, Samaritan’s Purse opened an Ebola treatment center in Liberia to provide care to more than 1.6 million people. 

In 2018, Samaritan’s Purse
established an Ebola Treatment Center in the Congo,
treating more than 600 patients.