Aust Ebola centre open within three weeks

THE Australian-run Ebola treatment facility in Sierra Leone will see its first patients within three weeks.

AUSTRALIAN doctors at an Ebola treatment facility in Sierra Leone will treat their first patients within three weeks.

ASPEN Medical was awarded $20 million in federal funding earlier this month to run a 100-bed British military field hospital in Sierra Leone, and co-founder Dr Andrew Walker says construction will be completed by the end of November.