Medical officials said the surgeon from Sierra Leone who is being
treated for Ebola in a Nebraska hospital on Saturday was critically ill
after being airlifted back from Africa.
Reuters has more on the story:
Dr. Martin Salia, 44, a permanent U.S. resident, caught
the disease while working as a surgeon in a Freetown hospital, according
to his family.
Doctors at the Nebraska hospital said his condition was extremely
critical. He had been stable enough to take a flight from West Africa to
Omaha but was too sick to walk off the plane, medical officials said.
“We will do everything humanly possible to help him fight this
disease,” Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at
Nebraska Medical Center, said in a statement. “This is an hour-by-hour
situation.”
Upon arrival Salia was transferred to a waiting ambulance in an
isolation unit called an ISOPOD, a device used in the transportation of a
potentially infectious patient, a hospital official said.
Salia is the third patient to be treated for Ebola in the hospital’s
Biocontainment Unit since the virus broke out in West Africa earlier
this year.
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