Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Dutch Radio - july 30 2015
In Sierra Leone, at least 123 patients and staff at one hospital quarantined. Among them are four Dutch: two doctors, one with his wife and child. "The doctors working in the Masanga Hospital in Tonkolili where last week a patient with Ebola died," said Frank van Raaij, president of the foundation Masanga Netherlands in the VPRO program International Office at NPO Radio 1.
The 27-year-old patient died after two days of hospitalization. After death tests showed that the patient had Ebola. "The suspicion of the disease was there, so the patient has been specially treated to prevent infection," says Van Raaij. As a precaution, all 123 patients and hospital staff still quarantined for a period of three weeks. MSF Netherlands has sent doctors to the hospital to treat the patients present.
The four Dutch have to stay two weeks in their homes, as a British doctor. The remaining 118 patients and staff sit in large buildings on the hospital grounds. " The Dutch and their families are doing well". They are shocked, but are all right". Especially the communication is difficult, because one of the Dutch doctors and the British doctor did not reach their mobile phone in their home. Contact with the outside world is therefore difficult, "Van Raaij tells the VPRO.
Preliminary research shows that the deceased patient was probably infected in the capital, Freetown hit with Ebola. It is the first Ebola case in the Tonkolili district in more than 150 days. The Foundation Masanga Netherlands, chaired by Van Raaij, supports the hospital financially.
In Sierra Leone, at least 123 patients and staff at one hospital quarantined. Among them are four Dutch: two doctors, one with his wife and child. "The doctors working in the Masanga Hospital in Tonkolili where last week a patient with Ebola died," said Frank van Raaij, president of the foundation Masanga Netherlands in the VPRO program International Office at NPO Radio 1.
The 27-year-old patient died after two days of hospitalization. After death tests showed that the patient had Ebola. "The suspicion of the disease was there, so the patient has been specially treated to prevent infection," says Van Raaij. As a precaution, all 123 patients and hospital staff still quarantined for a period of three weeks. MSF Netherlands has sent doctors to the hospital to treat the patients present.
The four Dutch have to stay two weeks in their homes, as a British doctor. The remaining 118 patients and staff sit in large buildings on the hospital grounds. " The Dutch and their families are doing well". They are shocked, but are all right". Especially the communication is difficult, because one of the Dutch doctors and the British doctor did not reach their mobile phone in their home. Contact with the outside world is therefore difficult, "Van Raaij tells the VPRO.
Preliminary research shows that the deceased patient was probably infected in the capital, Freetown hit with Ebola. It is the first Ebola case in the Tonkolili district in more than 150 days. The Foundation Masanga Netherlands, chaired by Van Raaij, supports the hospital financially.
