Two Dutch doctors Reewijk Apeldoorn and may become infected with the Ebola virus. The two works in the Lion Heart Medical Center in Yele in Sierra Leone last week and came into contact with three patients who later turned out to have. Ebola The doctors did not wear protective clothing, reports the NIS.
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© AFP. This is a woman of 39 and a man 31, writes De Telegraaf. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has told the newspaper confirmed that there are fears for two Dutch infections.
The doctors were at work not dressed in protective suits, because it did not look like that the patients in question had ebola. All three patients are now deceased.
According to director Pien Bax from the Lion Heart Foundation, the doctors themselves struck last Monday alarm at the embassy in Ghana. They were told that they had to return to the Netherlands. There The hospital in Yele, which was built largely with Dutch money is now closed.
Risk of infection
Both doctors are coming weekend brought back to the Netherlands, says Bax. This must be done by a special plane, since doctors for more than a week ago have come into contact with Ebola patients and others might infect, should they actually have the disease.
Whether they will be quarantined upon arrival in the Netherlands is not clear.
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