Ebola Patient Suspect In Germany

A Ugandan doctor suspected to be suffering from
Ebola disease has arrived in Frankfurt from Sierra
Leone for treatment in the city’s University
Hospital, a German government official has said.
Health Minister of German state, Hesse, Stefan
Gruettner, who disclosed this to journalists in
Wiesbaden, Frankfurt on Friday, said that the
patient was a physician.
He said that the Ugandan had worked for an Italian
Non-Governmental Organisation and had also
looked after patients in Sierra Leone .
Gruettner explained that the doctor was in Germany
for treatment, saying that the hospital had capacity
to help him.
According to him, the World Health Organisation
had asked Germany if it could help in taking care
of the patient.
“It is a sign for those who help in the regions
where the disease has broken out, especially
badly, that they can get help if they contract the
disease themselves,” he said.
Head of the Frankfurt Competence Center for Highly
Contagious Life-Threatening Diseases, Rene
Gottschalk, said that the Ugandan doctor was
being treated in an isolation unit in the Frankfurt
hospital.
Gottschalk said that the patient was conveyed from
the airport to the hospital in a special vehicle.
Latest report from WHO indicates that no fewer
than 3,338 people had died of the Ebola disease in
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
A case in the U.S. has heightened concerns that
Ebola could spread globally and could raise further
questions about travel restrictions from the affected
countries.