Press Release: EU Ebola Response: Member States send additional health personnel to the region

The European Commission announced on the 6 December 2014 that the European Union and its Member States continued to mobilise all available resources to help contain the largest Ebola epidemic on record.

In response to the EU's call for the mobilisation of qualified, trained and experienced health workers, Greece would send a team of six medical personnel - four doctors, a nurse and a paramedic- to the affected countries of West Africa through the Union Civil Protection Mechanism, as well as contributing to the funding of much-needed material. This was announced in a joint statement by EU Ebola Coordinator Christos Stylianides and the Greek Minister of Health, Mavroudis Voridis, on Saturday 6 December, in Athens.