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A DOCTOR FROM Sierra Leone who was being treated at a US hospital for Ebola has died.
In a statement the Nebraska Medical Center said, ”We are extremely sorry to announce that the third patient we’ve cared for with the Ebola virus, Dr. Martin Salia, has passed away as a result of the advanced symptoms of the disease”.
Salia, a native of Sierra Leone and a US resident, was infected with the deadly hemorrhagic fever while treating patients in his home country.
He was flown to Nebraska for treatment on Saturday. The hospital said:
“Dr. Salia was suffering from advanced symptoms of Ebola when he arrived at the hospital Saturday, which included kidney and respiratory failure.
He was placed on dialysis, a ventilator and multiple medications to support his organ systems in an effort to help his body fight the disease.
He was also given donated plasma from a survivor of Ebola and the experimental drug treatment ZMapp.
The hospital said late Sunday that Salia was in “extremely critical” condition and that doctors were doing everything they could to save him.
Salia was the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the United States, and the second to have died from the infection.
In October, a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, died at a Texas hospital of the virus which has killed thousands of people in West Africa in history’s largest outbreak to date.
The World Health Organization said Friday that 5,177 people are known to have died of Ebola across eight countries, out of a total 14,413 cases of infection, since December 2013.
“It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news,” said Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medical Center.
Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren’t able to save him.
When Salia first began to show symptoms of Ebola in Sierra Leone, a test for the virus came back negative, according to the Washington Post. A second test, on November 10, was positive.
Salia and his wife lived in New Carrollton, Maryland, a suburb of the US capital Washington. They have two children, age 12 and 20.
“We’re very grateful for the efforts of the team led by Dr. Smith,” said his wife, Isatu, in a statement.
In the short time we spent here, it was apparent how caring and compassionate everyone was.
“We are so appreciative of the opportunity for my husband to be treated here and believe he was in the best place possible.”
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Guess Enda will be preparing his resignation speech.
Nice news to wake up to. :-D
Merkel will have a job for him lined up already like Hogan…
If only we had some kind of electronic voting system that be good.. Oh wait
There’s an #Eircode for that!.. Oh wait
Get ready for a November election
Canvassing will be starting again on monday.
Why is it people with strong political attachments are allowed to be part of the count? What’s the criteria for selection?
What do you mean part of the count? The counting is done by public servants as far as I know. Each candidate is allowed a certain number of observers, which is only right, but they observe the counting, they don’t do it.
What happens now? We all give thanks that the bloody politicking is over for now.
No think we have to endure it at least one more time with another general election
How do people get selected for these election jobs. In my village there were at least six people working when it seemed to me that two would have been suffice .I didn’t know any of them
In that photo the one in the green top still has a polling station pencil in her hand lol.
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