Dr. Martin Salia, as surgeon who has been working in Sierra Leone, has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown to the U.S. on Saturday where he will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
The U.S. Embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, said Salia is paying for the expensive evacuation himself.
Salia is from Maryland, but has been working as a general surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in Freetown. Apparently, as soon as the news broke that the doctor had Ebola, patients from the small hospital fled, even women who had just given birth, according to United Methodist News.
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The hospital was closed on Tuesday after Salia tested positive and he was taken to the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center near Freetown, the church news service said. Kissy hospital staff members will now be quarantined for 21 days. The doctor had symptoms since Nov. 6, but didn’t actually test positive until Monday. He was not treating Ebola patients at the time.
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