China boosted its aid to countries worst-hit by the Ebola outbreak, to 750 million yuan (123 million dollars), a Foreign Ministry official said Friday.
According to dpa, Beijing was also increasing its number of medical personnel in the region by 200, to a total of 700, said Lin Songtian, director of the ministry's Department for African Affairs.
China was building a treatment centre in Liberia, which should be finished within a month, and sending 60 ambulances, 100 motorcycles, 10,000 health kits, protective clothing, hospital beds and small trucks to the region, he said.
The World Health Organization has reported almost 14,000 cases of Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, including 5,000 deaths.
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