REDLAND hospital is prepared to deal with a person who has symptoms of Ebola but will not treat them at the hospital, despite the hospital having one of Australia's few doctors who has worked with the deadly virus.
Bowman MP Andrew Laming said the hospital was fully prepared to manage a suspected Ebola patient with a special isolation section.
He said the hospital was also equipped with gloves, gowns and masks to tend to anyone who arrived at the hospital showing Ebola symptoms.
Hospital staff were also prepared to trace people who had been in contact with the patient, he said.
Anyone who arrives at the hospital showing symptoms of the disease will be isolated before being transferred 33km to Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital at Bowen Hills.
Mr Laming said he wrote to all Redland City general practices to remind them of appropriate initial management, should a suspected case present.
Although the Hospital is not equipped to treat anyone who presents with Ebola-like symptoms, its leading anesthetist Dr Jenny Stedmon is trained in treating Ebola patients.
Dr Stedmon risked her own life to go to Sierra Leone in Africa to help International Red Cross in its Ebola isolation ward.
Last week, she returned to work as head of the hospital's Anaesthetics department after spending a month working in Sierra Leone.
On her return, she was quarantined at her Annerley home for three weeks, the reckoned incubation period for the disease, which has so far killed more than 4400 people.
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Last week, Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said health workers returning to Queensland from West Africa would now be expected to go into voluntary isolation in Brisbane.
He said two Ebola scares in the state demonstrated strict measures needed to be enforced to limit the potential spread of the deadly virus.
He said returning health workers would be required to stay in quarantine in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in the future.
Mr Springborg asked the federal government to give Queensland Health workers the names of those who have travelled from West Africa.
Cleveland MP Mark Robinson said correct procedures and protocols were in place if "suspected" cases presented at the hospital.
"Whilst we have excellent staff and facilities at Redland Hospital, it has not been designated by Queensland Health for that purpose," Mr Robinson said.
"The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital has been designated under the state government's plan as the place where people can be screened and monitored for Ebola.
"If we need to treat and support someone who is positive with Ebola, that will be conducted at the RBWH as it is the hospital with the diagnostics and other capabilities to best deal with any such occurrence.
"Any suspected case presented at Redland Hospital would be safely transferred to the RBWH."