As a part of the Ministry of Health's Ebola preparedness plan, the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) organized a workshop for emergency medical services (EMS) employees and hospital staff on how to safely deal with Ebola patients.
The Ministry of Health engaged the Emergency Educational Institute (EEI) out of Miami, Florida to train staff.
EEI President Todd Soard explained that his team instructed EMS and hospital staff how to properly don and decontaminate hazmat suits to prevent contracting the deadly virus.
"Whenever they are donning or doffing (removing) off any type of the personal protective equipment, that is part of the training we are going to be going through," he said.
"It will give them the capability of knowing how to prevent a lot of the skin contact if they were to come into contact with an infectious person.
"Practice makes perfect. That is our plan here today."
Two nurses who treated an infected Ebola patient in Texas were infected with the virus.
Soard's team was recently in Grand Bahama and will be in Abaco on the weekend.
He said if a case of Ebola does occur, the staff would be prepared to deal with it.
"Education is the key," he said.
"You don't want to have any panic or hysteria. That just causes mass confusion."
Soard said EMS staff and hospital staff will have two separate guidelines to assist certain scenarios ranging from treating patients in an ambulance to a hospital bed.
As part of the Ministry of Health's guidelines, the Fox Hill Clinic was designated as a location for the extended isolation and management of Ebola cases, the guidelines for EMS personnel stated.
It added that similar facilities will be identified in Grand Bahama and the Family Islands.
Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Lucia recently restricted travel from West Africa, where the Ebola virus has killed over 4,500 people.
But Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Representative Dr. Gerry Eijkemans said that PAHO and the World Health Organization (WHO) have warned against a travel ban.
She has said that fear of a local outbreak of the Ebola virus is "not necessary".
Ebola symptoms include fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. These symptoms may be followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and, in some cases, both internal and external bleeding.

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