Possible Ebola patient to Rotterdam – Telegraaf.nl

Possible Ebola patient to Rotterdam – Telegraaf.nl

Dordrecht –

The man who was shot Saturday night at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Dordrecht, because there is a “probable suspicion” exists that he has Ebola symptoms is Saturday night transferred to the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. That left a spokesman for the Rotterdam hospital know

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Around 2:20 pm left an ambulance containing the patient from Dordrecht, reports the Albert Schweitzer Hospital. The man, according to a spokesman of the Erasmus MC comes from Sierra Leone, is examined in that hospital. It may take days before it becomes clear whether the man indeed Ebola infected.

He became unwell on Saturday the GP at the hospital in Dordrecht and was isolated. “Even people who have been in the GP with him were taken apart,” reported a spokesperson for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital. They were later in the evening back home. Their health is maintained by the Public Health Service into the holes.

The area where the man was unwell, is cleaned. Patients in the emergency department in Dordrecht have run no risk, emphasizes the hospital said in a statement.

Also, people at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam are required, according to hospital not to worry. The possible Ebola patient is transferred to an isolation room. “People who come to the bed should be fully covering skin,” says the spokesman.

Since there are many people in African countries are infected with the disease, there are also in the Netherlands regularly suspicions. 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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