CHENGDU - A team of public health experts from Southwest China's Sichuan province will go to Guinea-Bissau to train health workers in Ebola prevention, the provincial health commission said on Tuesday.

The team of three will set out on Thursday to conduct 32 days of training session in Guinea-Bissau for about 500 local health staff.

As of October, China had sent 450 public health experts and medical workers to west Africa, building laboratories and treatment centers.