Canadian Red Cross president and CEO, Conrad Sauvé in Sierra Leone. Photo: Lisa Pattison/IFRC
Social mobilization volunteers from the Sierra Leone Red Cross provide information to people about Ebola. Photo: Lisa Pattison/IFRC
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Canadian Red Cross president and CEO, Conrad Sauvé pictured with members of the Red Cross safe and dignified burial team in Sierra Leone. Photo: Lisa Pattison/IFRC
Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Gregory Taylor, joins the Words Against Ebola campaign. Photo: Lisa Pattison/IFRC
Stéphane Michaud from the Canadian Red Cross is at an Ebola treatment centre where rubber gloves are part of the personal protective equipment worn by workers to stay safe. Photo: Lisa Pattison/IFRC
In one tent at an MSF Ebola treatment centre, a worker demonstrates testing for Ebola using a mobile laboratory from the Public Health Agency of Canada. Photo: Stéphane Michaud/Canadian Red Cross
View of the Red Cross Ebola treatment centre in Kono, Sierra Leone. Photo: Sebastien Lynch/Canadian Red Cross
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Sam Wilmot and Ibraham Kamara are chlorination technicians contracted at the Red Cross Ebola treatment centre in Kono, Sierra Leone. They test water to ensure that it has the required concentrations of disinfectant. Photo: Tanya Grygaski
Personal protective equipment keeps workers safe from spreading the Ebola virus. Photo: Jodi Dockman/Canadian Red Cross
View of the Red Cross Ebola treatment centre in Kono, Sierra Leone. Photo: Nikola Latinovic/Canadian Red Cross
The Canadian Red Cross is part of a delegation visiting Ebola-affected areas of West Africa this week accompanying Dr. Greg Taylor, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, in visits to various treatment centres and in affected communities to see the efforts to fight Ebola. Canadian Red Cross President and CEO, Conrad Sauvé, and Stephen Cornish, executive director of MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) were part of the delegation.
Canadian Red Cross aid workers are part of the ongoing efforts to stop the Ebola outbreak, working alongside local staff at Ebola treatment centres. Canadian delegates have been sharing their experiences on the Red Cross Talks blog. Read some of the most
recent dispatches and updates.