Three new patients isolated over Ebola fears
Published: 09 Oct 2014 09:09 GMT+02:00
Three more health workers in Spain have been admitted to hospital for monitoring for Ebola on Wednesday night, including two doctors who had contact with a nurse who has been infected with the disease.
One of the two doctors, Juan Manuel Parra, is the only medical practitioner who cared for Teresa Romero for the entire 16 hours at Madrid's Alcorcón hospital on Monday. He had direct exposure to the patient's bodily fluids and asked to be admitted to hospital.
In an internal letter to hospital authorities and obtained by major Spanish newspapers Parra said the sleeves of his scrubs has been too short.
Parra said that. like Romero, he only found out the nurse he had been treating was positive for Ebola via the media.
The third new patient is a nurse who had contact with one of the two Spanish missionaries who died from Ebola after being repatriated from west Africa for treatment.
"He is showing symptoms and a test has been carried out but we have not received the result yet," said a spokesman for the Madrid hospital.
Meanwhile, two people who had previously been under observation in hospital have been cleared of the disease and discharged.
More: The Local
Published: 09 Oct 2014 09:09 GMT+02:00
Three more health workers in Spain have been admitted to hospital for monitoring for Ebola on Wednesday night, including two doctors who had contact with a nurse who has been infected with the disease.
One of the two doctors, Juan Manuel Parra, is the only medical practitioner who cared for Teresa Romero for the entire 16 hours at Madrid's Alcorcón hospital on Monday. He had direct exposure to the patient's bodily fluids and asked to be admitted to hospital.
In an internal letter to hospital authorities and obtained by major Spanish newspapers Parra said the sleeves of his scrubs has been too short.
Parra said that. like Romero, he only found out the nurse he had been treating was positive for Ebola via the media.
The third new patient is a nurse who had contact with one of the two Spanish missionaries who died from Ebola after being repatriated from west Africa for treatment.
"He is showing symptoms and a test has been carried out but we have not received the result yet," said a spokesman for the Madrid hospital.
Meanwhile, two people who had previously been under observation in hospital have been cleared of the disease and discharged.
More: The Local
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