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Ten isolation rooms have been set aside to accommodate potential Ebola virus patients at Health Sciences Centre, while 36 physicians and many more nurses have been trained to tend to them.

Manitoba’s largest hospital gave journalists a tour of its Ebola treatment area this afternoon, explaining how the facility has readied itself to handle a lethal disease that has mobilized medical officials around the world.

Photographers captured nurses donning and doffing layers of protective gear and received a tour of one the 180-square-foot dedicated patient rooms.

All 10 rooms will be kept at the ready — with no other patients occupying them — while the Ebola scare lasts.

Physicians received two initial days of special training, to be followed by a one-day-a-month refresher indefinitely. Nurses will also receive ongoing training, officials said.

"Every day without an Ebola patient is a gift," said Dr. Perry Gray, chief medical officer with the Health Sciences Centre.