This was made public by the wife of the
American patient, Debbie Sacra, at a news conference at the University
of Massachusetts Medical School.
Mrs Sacra informed that she had just spoken to the doctor treating her husband, who had put him on the plane to the US.
“He said Rick is clearly sick, but he was in very good spirits … and he walked onto the plane,” she said. “We are really encouraged by that news and looking forward to reuniting with him,” she said.
Mrs Sacra informed that she had just spoken to the doctor treating her husband, who had put him on the plane to the US.
“He said Rick is clearly sick, but he was in very good spirits … and he walked onto the plane,” she said. “We are really encouraged by that news and looking forward to reuniting with him,” she said.
Dr. Sacra attending to patients in Liberia.
Mrs.
Sacra added that the couple had known there was a risk of him getting
infected with Ebola when he left for Liberia in August.
“I
knew he needed to be with the Liberian people,” she said. “He was so
concerned about the children that were going to die from malaria without
hospitalization and the women who had no place to go to deliver their
babies by cesarean section. He’s not someone who can stand back if
there’s a need he can take care of,” the wife said.
The missionary organization that Sacra works
for, SIM, announced on Thursday, 4 September that Sacra was being flown
to The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for treatment.
University of Nebraska Medical Center Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold said he hoped Sacra would arrive Friday morning. Sacra will be treated in the center’s biocontainment unit, where he will receive “world-class care,” Gold said.
It was added that Dr. Sacra will be treated in the hospital’s 10-bed special isolation unit, the largest of four such units in the U.S.
Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the Omaha unit, said Sacra’s transfer to Omaha posed no threat to the public, noting Ebola is transmitted through close contact with an infected person.
Dr. Richard A. Sacra is a Massachusetts physician who has devoted his career to medical missionary work in Liberia and who returned to the west African country after other medical workers fell ill with Ebola.
It was gathered that Dr. Sacra, 51, a family doctor who trained and worked in Worcester but spent most of the past 20 years in Liberia, was not treating Ebola patients but working in an obstetrics ward at a hospital in Monrovia when he became ill.
He developed a fever Friday and isolated himself; tests confirmed Ebola on Monday, according to a statement from his family.
Dr. Sacra was being cared for at ELWA (which stands for Eternal Love Winning Africa) Hospital, which is run by the Christian missionary group SIM.
The first two American to be infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease were Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, both have recovered since being flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment.
According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, no fewer than 1900 people have died from the Ebola virus since the latest outbreak started in West Africa early this year.
Apart from Liberia, other West African countries battling the disease are Nigeria, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Senegal.
University of Nebraska Medical Center Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold said he hoped Sacra would arrive Friday morning. Sacra will be treated in the center’s biocontainment unit, where he will receive “world-class care,” Gold said.
It was added that Dr. Sacra will be treated in the hospital’s 10-bed special isolation unit, the largest of four such units in the U.S.
Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the Omaha unit, said Sacra’s transfer to Omaha posed no threat to the public, noting Ebola is transmitted through close contact with an infected person.
Dr. Richard A. Sacra is a Massachusetts physician who has devoted his career to medical missionary work in Liberia and who returned to the west African country after other medical workers fell ill with Ebola.
It was gathered that Dr. Sacra, 51, a family doctor who trained and worked in Worcester but spent most of the past 20 years in Liberia, was not treating Ebola patients but working in an obstetrics ward at a hospital in Monrovia when he became ill.
He developed a fever Friday and isolated himself; tests confirmed Ebola on Monday, according to a statement from his family.
Dr. Sacra was being cared for at ELWA (which stands for Eternal Love Winning Africa) Hospital, which is run by the Christian missionary group SIM.
The first two American to be infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease were Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, both have recovered since being flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment.
According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, no fewer than 1900 people have died from the Ebola virus since the latest outbreak started in West Africa early this year.
Apart from Liberia, other West African countries battling the disease are Nigeria, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Senegal.
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