| Title | Cuban Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola | |
| Date | Saturday November 22 2014, @02:45PM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the wishing-him-well dept. | ||
Reuters is reporting that one of the Cuban doctors who was sent to Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola. The doctor has been in Sierra Leone since October as a member of a group of 165 doctors and nurses that are part of a Cuban team of 256 medical professionals sent to West Africa to treat patients caught up in an epidemic that has infected more than 14,000 people and killed more than 5,000 of them.
In another post, Reuters reported:
The doctor, Felix Baez, 43, cannot recall any mistake in procedure that could have led to him catching the virus from a patient, said Jorge Perez, director of the tropical diseases hospital where Cuban doctors train for their Ebola missions.
Baez is a specialist in internal medicine, with little infectious disease experience. The Cuban doctors and nurses follow the training and recommendations of the World Health Organization, and wear protective, full-body suits when treating Ebola patients with strict procedures on how to remove them. They trained for their mission for three weeks in Cuba and another 15 days upon arriving in West Africa.
The Cuban claim that unlike doctors from other countries, they would treat any infected doctors in the field under the same condition as their Ebola patients "until they recover or die" quickly fell by the wayside, as plans were made to move the doctor to Geneva for treatment. Even prior to flying to Geneva, Dr Baez has been placed in the care of British doctors.
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