A picture shows The Royal Free Hospital in London, where a British healthcare worker who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being treated. Photo: AFP
London: A British nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has arrived in London by military plane.
The patient, who is not “seriously unwell” according to the Department of Health, is to be treated at an isolation unit at a London hospital.
A spokesman for Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health, Yahya Tunis, said the man was a volunteer nurse working in Kenema in eastern Sierra Leone, one of the areas hardest hit by Ebola which has now been quarantined.
“His colleagues are very sad over the development as he is considered as a valued member,” MrTunis said, adding that he was involved in “surveillance, contact tracing and the burial of Ebola victims”.