Sierra Leone: WHO Airlifts Medical Specialists to Treat Victims of Tanker Explosion

The first batch of foreign healthcare specialists expected to help Sierra Leone treat victims of last week's deadly tanker explosion have arrived in the country.

The group of 10 Senegalese medics airlifted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is part of the international Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) requested by the West African country, which is struggling to attend to the cases of people with severe burns from the fire disaster.

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