MANILA: Filipino peacekeepers from Ebola-stricken Liberia will be quarantined at the Armed Forces Peacekeeping Operations Centre (PKOC) in Capas, Tarlac upon their return to the country this month.
Armed Forces chief Gen Gregorio Catapang Jr said soldiers assigned at the PKOC would be temporarily transferred to another office while the peacekeepers are undergoing medical check-up.
“I think they will be brought to the PKOC. We will prepare the place and we will move the soldiers assigned there so that the peacekeepers from Liberia can be isolated,” Catapang said.
The PKOC is located in Camp O’Donnell, which also serves as the home of the Mechanized Infantry Division and Training and Doctrine Command.
Col Roberto Ancan, chief of the Armed Forces Peacekeeping Operations Centre, said the soldiers would be transferred to their satellite office in Camp Aguinaldo. He said the peacekeepers are scheduled to arrive within November 10 to 14 via a chartered flight.
Ancan said members of the Philippine peacekeeping contingent are still “doing well” as he expressed hopes that none of them contracted the deadly virus.
The government has decided to pull-out its 110-strong peacekeeping contingent to Liberia because of the outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has swept through West Africa and has left about 4,900 persons dead.
The Philippine Star
