A Ugandan doctor suspected to be
suffering from Ebola disease has arrived in Frankfurt from Sierra Leone for treatment in the city’s University Hospital, a German government official has said.
Health Minister of German state, Hesse, Stefan Gruettner, who disclosed this to journalists in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt on Friday, said that the patient was a physician.
He said that the Ugandan had worked for an Italian Non-Governmental Organisation and had also looked after patients in Sierra Leone.
Gruettner explained that the doctor was in Germany for treatment, saying that the hospital had capacity to help him.
According to him, the World Health Organisation had asked Germany if it could help in taking care of the patient.
“It is a sign for those who help in the
regions where the disease has broken out, especially badly, that they can get help if they contract the disease themselves,” he said.
Head of the Frankfurt Competence
Center for Highly Contagious Life-
Threatening Diseases, Rene Gottschalk, said that the Ugandan doctor was being treated in an isolation unit in the Frankfurt hospital.
Gottschalk said that the patient was
conveyed from the airport to the
hospital in a special vehicle.
Latest report from WHO indicates that no fewer than 3,338 people had died of the Ebola disease in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
A case in the U.S. has heightened
concerns that Ebola could spread
globally and could raise further
questions about travel restrictions from the affected countries.
Culled from NAN
