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100 tons of supplies to fight Ebola sent to West Africa
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY 3:43 p.m. EDT September 21, 2014
One hundred tons of medical supplies are being shipped from New York to Liberia and Sierra Leone. The supplies will help medical workers prevent the spread of the disease. VPC
Humanitarian groups have sent nearly $6 million in medical supplies to West Africa to help in the fight against Ebola.
The airlift left Saturday from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on a chartered Boeing 747 airplane bound for communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone, two of the countries hardest hit in the Ebola outbreak.
The 100 tons of supplies include gloves, masks, gowns, goggles, saline, antibiotics, oral rehydration solution and pain killers. Ebola can cause excruciating pain, as well as severe vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding, making it important to offer pain relief and to rehydrate patients as quickly as possible.
"We must do all we can to reduce further the human tragedy caused by this deadly outbreak and help communities avoid an even deeper setback than has occurred already," said Chief Executive Thomas Tighe of Direct Relief, which helped organize the airlift.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/09/21/ebola-supplies-airlift/16008215/
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY 3:43 p.m. EDT September 21, 2014
One hundred tons of medical supplies are being shipped from New York to Liberia and Sierra Leone. The supplies will help medical workers prevent the spread of the disease. VPC
Humanitarian groups have sent nearly $6 million in medical supplies to West Africa to help in the fight against Ebola.
The airlift left Saturday from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on a chartered Boeing 747 airplane bound for communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone, two of the countries hardest hit in the Ebola outbreak.
The 100 tons of supplies include gloves, masks, gowns, goggles, saline, antibiotics, oral rehydration solution and pain killers. Ebola can cause excruciating pain, as well as severe vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding, making it important to offer pain relief and to rehydrate patients as quickly as possible.
"We must do all we can to reduce further the human tragedy caused by this deadly outbreak and help communities avoid an even deeper setback than has occurred already," said Chief Executive Thomas Tighe of Direct Relief, which helped organize the airlift.
...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/09/21/ebola-supplies-airlift/16008215/