A company that provides locum doctors to remote Australian communities is now helping to find staff with the skills and experience to treat Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
Thousands of people have died in the West African Ebola epidemic and health agencies warn that the situation is not improving and more help is needed.
Locum recruitment company Ochre Health started in western NSW in 2002.
Director Dr Ross Lamplugh says many of the doctors on his books have skills that are urgently needed in Africa.
He says the Ebola crisis is growing and the problem is broadening throughout the West African community.
“Healthcare workers are not going to work, and then the ones that do are not going back to their villages, because people are frightened they’re going to spread the disease,” he said.
“It’s got much bigger than just Ebola too, because of the fact that health care workers have died or are not going to work.
“General health care is not being managed properly.”