Video: Take a Tour of the EU Mobile Lab in Guéckédou, Guinea
Earlier this year, colleagues working at the EU Mobile Lab in Guéckédou, Guinea made a short film representing a typical day working in the lab. Each team stays in the field for four weeks, but they work long hours, processing 50-80 samples per day from morning until late at night. A typical day will start at 8am, with staff returning to their hotel at 10 or 11pm. Despite the stressful environment some colleagues will visit the field more than once.
The team that appears in the video was made up of six colleagues from the Robert-Koch-Institute in Germany, INMI Spallanzani in Italy, Laboratoire P4 Inserm Jean Merieux in France, Public Health England, Institute for Virology Philipps-University Marburg in Germany, and the World Health Organisation.
- Andreas Kurth
- Concetta Castilletti
- Alexandra Journeaux-Fizet
- Gordian Schudt
- Lisa Jameson
You can also watch a video of the Foya unit in Liberia.
For more information on this project and to see an interview with Stephan Günther, read the Voices & Views on EU Mobile Labs: Part of the Solution to Tackle the Ebola Outbreak.