YNET
by Udi Etsion
October 27, 2014
Sterile tent produced by Israeli company SYS Technologies has already been ordered by Guinea, as WHO scrambles to deal with deadly epidemic.
The number of people who have been infected with Ebola in the current outbreak of the disease now exceeds 10,000 in eight different countries, and approximately 50 percent have already died from the virus. The Israelis are now stepping in to help contain the spread of the deadly epidemic; and special inflatable isolation tents manufactured by Israeli company SYS Technologies, which specializes in the development of clean-air systems and mobile operating theaters, have been installed recently in Guinea.
The inflatable tents have also been purchased for the treatment of Ebola patients by other countries on the continent, where the World Health Organization has yet to find a way to halt the spread of the epidemic.
“There is currently no effective treatment for Ebola, so the principal weapon against it is to isolate the patients so that others aren’t infected,” says entrepreneur Yossi Yonah, who is marketing the Israeli solution. “Our units are far more readily available than other mobile structures, and they are hermetically sealed and protect the surroundings from the patients.”…..
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