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Rossland nurse off to Nepal

A Rossland native is moving on from her Ebola experience in west Africa to the post-earthquake challenges of Nepal.

Nurse Patrice Gordon is off to a rural area as part of a Canadian Red Cross Emergency Response Team.

She’ll be the team leader.

Gordon – who practices in the Chilcotin but has a home in Rossland- made headlines when she was quarantined in Kelowna in December.

She had returned from the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone feeling ill and spent weeks in isolation as a precautionary measure.

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