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The article discusses the deployment by the British Defence Medical Services (DMS) of humanitarian assistance to the Sierra Leonean government in response to the Ebola crisis. Topics covered include the development of DMS Ebola Treatment Facility (ETF) to care for health care workers, the association of the junior doctors' strike with access to the ETF and the primary constraint to admission of health care workers.

Considers the food shortage that threatens Sierra Leone. The report by the World Food Programme (WFP) of the ever-worsening shortage of food; The supply needed by the WFP; The lack of safe passage that has hindered delivery of medicine and food; The numbers reported malnourished. INSET: Uncertainty remains over health-care provision in Sierra Leone.