The first Kiwi doctor heading to help fight Ebola is playing down her part in the aid effort.
Clair Mills, Northland's Medical Officer of Health, leaves for Sierra Leone tomorrow.
She will be Doctors Without Borders' medical co-ordinator in the capital city, Freetown.
"Lots of people do think it's amazing and brave...but actually I'm pretty ordinary, really. I think many people could do it."
Ms Mills says the amazing people are the health workers living in the affected countries, who look after their fellow countrymen with very few resources.
"And do it with grace and great efficiency and caring and I think that's really the most admirable thing."
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