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Lord McCabe
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(10 years, 1 month ago)
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Mr Hammond
As my hon. Friend will know, we have established a military-run facility in Sierra Leone to provide health care to health workers who may have been exposed to Ebola. We also regularly arrange medevac flights, where necessary, to bring out health workers. In fact, two health workers were brought out on a precautionary basis in the past few days.
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab)
What advice would the Secretary of State give to anyone planning to travel from the UK to Sierra Leone at the present time?
Mr Hammond
Our advice is that unless they are going as a health care worker to fight the Ebola emergency as part of an organised humanitarian programme, they should not travel. The advice is to avoid travel.