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Army Captain Honoured For Work Fighting Ebola
A British Army Captain has been honoured for his work in tackling the Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa 2 years ago.
Captain Phillip Rowland was only 25 when he was put in charge of a key response centre in a remote region of Sierra Leone.
Rowland from the Royal Corps of Signals, was deployed to Sierra Leone in January last year – where he immediately began setting up an emergency call centre.
He was later promoted to Chief of Staff of the centre – running all phases of the operation including the command of 2,000 Ebola response staff.
The centre was responsible for relocating people displaying symptoms of the disease, to stop the spread of the highly contagious virus.
British Troops played a key role in eradicating Ebola which claimed the lives of 11,500 people across West Africa, though there was only so much they could do to prepare themselves for this operation.
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