Samaritan’s Purse, the evangelical international humanitarian relief organization, airlifted an Ebola treatment unit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo last week in response to the outbreak of the deadly disease.
The airlift from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Uganda and then to neighboring Congo included a team of 23 medical specialists in the prevention and control of the disease. More medical specialists—as many as 60 people in all—may eventually work in the Ebola unit, said Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse.
“Our staff know the risk, and they know how to protect themselves, and they’re ready for the task, but it’s dangerous,” Graham said Thursday in a phone conversation from Madrid where he preached on Saturday and Sunday.
