Sunday 7 December 2014

Ebola Patient Flown to Netherlands for Treatment


An image made available by the Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases research laboratory at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and taken on November 21, 2011, shows laboratory technicians and physicians working on samples during research on the evolving Ebola disease in bats, at the Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases research Laboratory of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Pretoria. AFP PHOTO

Still in the fight against Ebola,the first Ebola patient to be treated in The Netherlands was flown to the country in a specially equipped plane and was to be taken straight to the university hospital in Utrecht, in the center of the country.
“After Germany, France and Switzerland , it is The Netherlands’ turn to make a contribution by welcoming an employee of an international organisation,” the Dutch health and development ministers said in a letter to parliament.
The patient had