Possible Ebola patient in Dordrecht – Telegraaf.nl

Possible Ebola patient in Dordrecht – Telegraaf.nl

Dordrecht –

A patient of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Dordrecht possibly infected with Ebola. The man showed Saturday symptoms similar to those of the dreaded disease. There is a crisis hastily rigged

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The man comes from Sierre Leone, said a spokesman of the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. In the hospital he will be investigated. Until that time, the patient is in isolation. ,, Even people who have been in the GP with him were taken apart ‘, filled the spokesperson for the Albert Schweitzer hospital.

It was initially reported that the man had been in the emergency department, but unwell that proved to be the huiartsenpost at a hospital in Dordrecht. happened Patients in the emergency department have therefore run no risk, emphasizes the hospital said in a statement. The GP has been provisionally closed.

Patients in the Rotterdam hospital need, according to a spokesman not to worry. Mr. ,, goes directly from the ambulance to the isolation room ‘, promised the officer. ,, Way he can lose nothing. People who come to the bed must be completely skin-covering clothing. ‘”Whether it actually is an Ebola infection, according to the spokesman probably only known in a few days.

Since in African countries, many people become infected with the disease, there are also suspicions in the Netherlands with some regularity. End of September, at least 15 suspects. Were, according to the RIVM Possible that there are more. Moreover, not all reported suspicions because it soon becomes apparent that there is nothing to worry about. Until now, it was a false alarm every time in the Netherlands

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