Health care workers attending the Department of Defense

Health care workers attending the Department of Defense Ebola Treatment Training Team’s class at the National Police Training Academy, Paynesville, Liberia, try to restrain an expert patient trainer simulating a suspected Ebola patient who becomes confused and aggressive during his stay at an Ebola treatment unit, Dec. 23, 2014. The title, expert patient trainer is a title used only for Liberians who are Ebola survivors and who role play as patients for the course health care workers attend before working in an ETU. The DET-3 is scheduled to make a critical transition of its mission back to the World Health Organization, the ETU health care workers who were trained as trainers, and PAE, a contracting company, Jan. 1, 2015. The WHO, which created the course in conjunction with the Liberian Ministry of Health, has been conducting the same training since September 2014. The DET-3, as part of Joint Forces Command – United Assistance, conducted 14 classes at the NPTA while its mobile training team conducted 12 other classes in remote areas across Liberia, training more than 1,500 health care workers. Operation United Assistance is a Department of Defense operation in Liberia to provide logistics, training and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development-led efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Hoskins, Joint Forces Command – United Assistance Public Affairs/RELEASED)