Ebola patient Nebraska: Native Sierra Leone doctor who contracted the virus while treating infected persons in the nation is being flown into the United States for treatment. The Sierra Leone doctor is scheduled to be flown in to the U.S for treatment from the deadly virus at around 3 pm on Saturday.
The ebola patient Nebraska will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center which is one of the four hospitals in the United States with a fully functional bio containment unit and carries with it years of experience in the handling and treating of infectious diseases.
The Sierra Leone doctor, Dr. Martin Salia, is a legally permanent resident of the United States and is even married to a U.S citizen. According to the team present in Sierra Leone, where the ebola virus has so far killed about 1,200 people, the doctor's state is critical. He is even referred to as possibly being sicker than those previous patients of the ebola virus who have been successfully treated in the U.S.
"My sister is very worried and upset," Salia's brother-in-law, Ibrahim Kargbo said in an interview, referring to Salia's wife, Isatu. "Right now she is pretty devastated. ... We're all just praying he recovers soon."
The ebola Nebraska patient, it is reported, treated all sorts of people back in Sierra Leone. The doctor, it is hoped, will be treated here just as he applied himself for the treatment of others back in Africa.
Dr. Martin's wife requested the evacuation and has agreed to compensate the U.S government for any costs incurred in the evacuation.
Eight of the previously recorded ebola cases in the United States have been cured successfully. Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan succumbed to the illness in Dallas last month. It is widely hoped that the ebola patient Nebraska will find the much needed treatment he requires.
