Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Northover on 11 February (HL4569), about medical relief operations in Sierra Leone, what efforts they are making to co-ordinate their activities with those of the government of Israel which is providing mobile clinics and medical expertise to help combat ebola infections.

The UK is leading the international response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. We have built 6 Emergency Treatment Centres staffed by British and international healthcare workers, are supporting more than half of all the treatment and isolation beds available for Ebola patients, trained 4000 frontline health care staff, and provided three new laboratories to test one third of all samples collected nationally.

Israel has donated $8.75 million to the UN’s Ebola Response Multi Partner Trust Fund. The UK is also represented here and coordinates closely with other donors on priorities for the Fund.