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Old 12th Mar 2015, 08:05
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British doctors and soldiers will not be guaranteed return to UK if they contract Ebola - Telegraph

An old telegraph headline from when troops were first mooted to go, that's why there was good reason to doubt the 'automatic' return of an infected military member for best medical care.

Relevant extract:

'However, both the Department of Health and the Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday that medical and military personnel would not be guaranteed repatriation if they developed Ebola while working on the relief effort.
Instead, they could be treated in field hospitals in Sierra Leone and would only be flown home on a “case by case” basis, the departments said.'
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