Health Minister, Dr. Fenton Ferguson says discussions are underway with the Jamaica Fire Brigade and the Jamaica Defence Force for them to take charge of transporting Ebola patients to the various isolation centres on the island.
Dr Ferguson made this disclosure this afternoon while on a tour of a 30-million dollar Ebola isolation facility being built at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James.
The facility being built at Cornwall Regional will serve all of western Jamaica, covering the parishes of Trelawny, St. James, Hanover and Westmoreland.
In the interim, the dialysis building is being retrofitted to handle those Ebola patients who may require treatment before the isolation facility is ready for occupation.
All other hospitals in that part of the island will have holding facilities, from which suspected Ebola patients will be transferred to the facility at Cornwall Regional.
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