Maryland doctor Martin Salia who was sent to Nebraska Medical Center on Saturday has died. Hospital officials confirmed the unfortunate news on Monday:
“It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news,” said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medical Center and professor of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the hospital’s academic partner. “Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren’t able to save him.”
“We used every possible treatment available to give Dr. Salia every possible opportunity for survival,” said Dr. Smith. “As we have learned, early treatment with these patients is essential. In Dr. Salia’s case, his disease was already extremely advanced by the time he came here for treatment.”
Salia first started showing symptoms on November 6 during the time he was treating infected patients in his native Sierra Leone. He spent about four months overseas each year and the rest of the time in New Carrollton, Maryland. Doctors in the U.S. have been critical of how he was treated in Sierra Leone because his first test for the virus was negative, but four days later was positive. The first few days are often inconclusive, but because he showed symptoms, he likely should have been treated earlier.
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