The Hampstead hospital which saved three British health workers who had contracted Ebola is sending nurses to Africa to help tackle the latest Ebola outbreak.

The Royal Free has signed a deal with aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres to continuously deploy two staff on six-week secondments.

Ward manager Jess Joyce and staff nurse Kirsty Metz are travelling to the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

More than 2,000 people have died since August last year in the world’s second largest Ebola outbreak.