Re: Sixth Sierra Leone doctor infected with Ebola - Dr. Martin Salia treated at the Nebraska Medical Center
Re: Sixth Sierra Leone doctor infected with Ebola - Dr. Martin Salia treated at the Nebraska Medical Center
Martin Salia, doctor critically ill with Ebola, is flown from Sierra Leone to U.S.
By Katherine Shaver November 15 at 7:25 PM
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Friends said Salia mostly lived in Freetown but visited his wife, Isatu Salia, and their two children, ages 12 and 20, in New Carrollton several times a year. He is a Sierra Leone citizen and permanent U.S. resident, while his wife is a U.S. citizen, according to the Obama administration official.
Salia has worked at Kissy United Methodist Hospital since 2012 and has been its chief medical officer since February, said John K. Yambasu, bishop of the United Methodist Church in Sierra Leone and chair of the Religious Leaders Task Force on Ebola.
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Kissy Hospital is not an Ebola treatment center, and the hospital does not know where or how Salia contracted the virus, Yambasu said.
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Salia last reported to work at Kissy Hospital on Nov. 4, Yambasu wrote. He said he believes Salia might have realized he had symptoms, isolated himself and had gone to the Hastings Ebola treatment center near Freetown for testing. That first test was negative, Yambasu said. A second test at Connaught Hospital on Nov. 10 was positive.
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Martin Salia, doctor critically ill with Ebola, is flown from Sierra Leone to U.S.
By Kathy L. Gilbert
Nov. 15, 2014 (UMNS)
A critically ill Dr. Martin Salia, chief medical officer and surgeon at United Methodist Kissy Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, arrived at Nebraska Medical Center Saturday afternoon for treatment for Ebola.
As snow fell, people dressed in bright yellow protective clothing loaded Salia onto an isolation pad and then into the back of an ambulance. The plane arrived at Eppley Airfield at 2:44 p.m. local time (3:44 p.m. ET).
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Salia?s wife, Isatu, 40, said she is paying for the $200,000 ticket to get her husband flown to the United States. She is raising money for herself and their two sons, 20 and 12, to get to Nebraska Medical Center to be with the sick doctor.
Salia has never practiced medicine in the United States. He trained as a doctor in Sierra Leone's College of Medicine and Allied Sciences, his wife said.
Mrs. Salia said the hospital officials told her when she arrives she will not see her husband in person. However, they are arranging a video feed in his quarantined room for the two to communicate. There will also be a video feed from a visitor?s room for the family.
The State Department reported Mrs. Salia, who is a U.S. citizen and a resident of Maryland, requested the evacuation. Her husband is a lawful permanent resident of the U.S.
?Just as we have done in previous cases, every precaution is being taken to ensure the evacuation is completed safely and securely, that critical care is provided en route, and that strict isolation is maintained,? said department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
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http://www.umc.org/news-and-media/sierra-leone-surgeon-with-ebola-arrives-in-us
