UK health worker flown home from Sierra Leone
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A British military health care worker who tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone is being flown back to Britain and four others are being assessed, officials in London said yesterday.
The unnamed worker was being transported in a specially equipped plane and will be treated in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London, the country’s designated Ebola treatment centre.
On board the plane are two other military health care workers who have not been diagnosed with Ebola but were found to require further assessment because of contact with the diagnosed person. They will be monitored for symptoms at the Royal Free.
Two other military health care workers are being assessed in Sierra Leone before a decision is made on whether to evacuate them to Britain.
The health care worker who has tested positive was exposed to the virus in a care facility for Ebola patients.
Britain has between 600 and 700 military personnel deployed in the West African country to help combat the virus. Ebola has killed nearly 10,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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