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Another wave of medical workers is set to travel to West Africa as China's latest batch of aid to help battle the Ebola outbreak, a Chinese health agency announced Wednesday.
According to the National Health and Family Planning Commission, a team comprised of a dozen of health trainers will travel to Sierra Leone on Sunday, while groups of virus-testing specialists and government commissioners will leave for West Africa later in November.
This comes as a confirmation of China's promise to continue providing aid to the worst-hit countries in West Africa including Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
"China's assistance will not stop as long as the Ebola epidemic [continues] in West Africa," Foreign Ministry's African Affairs Department Director Lin Songtian declared.
Just last week, President Xi Jinping declared that his country will be sending $82 million worth of personnel and supplies assistance to the three worst-hit countries.
Since the epidemic exploded in February this year, China had already sent three batches of help to Ebola-stricken countries in April, August and September.
During the following months, China has promised to send more than 1,000 medical workers to West Africa in addition to the 252 it has already sent since Ebola became an international concern.
As of most recent reports, 134 Chinese medical personnel are still working in the frontlines of the battle against the epidemic.
According to the Chinese health commission, China's medical workers will help conquer the outbreak through focusing on controlling the spread of the virus.
The team of Chinese trainers will lend their knowledge about the control and prevention of the spread of a contagion to grassroots administrators, local medical workers, community leaders, government officials and volunteers in both the Ebola-hit countries as well as their neighbors.
Reports revealed that the Chinese experts based their knowledge on stemming the Ebola outbreak on their experience of the SARS epidemic.
